Back in 2022, I wrote this rather grumpy post on Mastodon, the federated social media platform. @[email protected] EdenMastodon enforces a "noreferrer" on all external links.I have mixed feelings about that.As a blogger, I want to see *where* visitors are coming from. I also like to see (and sometimes join in) with the conversations they're having.But, I get that people want privacy and don't want to "leak" where they're visiting from.Is it such a bad thing to tell a website "I was…
  • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Well, I don’t know how you could implement that from a website that would enable people to choose? Not sure that is technically possible.

    And of course if you simply telll your browser not to send referer info in headers you won’t.