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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by cpach on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:07AM (#14717740)
Interesting! Any idea why HN sets the referrer to origin?
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by yahelc on Friday July 07, 2017 @09:18AM (#14718079)
The HackerNews repo is gone (and thus the issue), but at one point this was a Github issue I successfully filed to get HN to add it so their referral data for non-SSL pages wouldn't be lost:

https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/68

(Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7197520)

IIRC, I think the developer was open to adding a referral, but not have it leak any on-site information, so this was a compromise.

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