Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers
by icebraining on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:13PM
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Do you have a link? I'd figure Google would want to restrict the Referer link, as they were accused in the move to HTTPS (which did break it for a lot of sites linked from Search).
Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers
by gcb0 on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:08AM
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you will have to search. its hidden in unrelated commits. but features that were removed at different points in time are: no referrer/only first party referrer in settings. no referrer in their about:config equivalent at the time (its a moving target). command line option to disable referrer.
all added and vanished at random points in time.
just like several dev over the years implemented privacy conscious options to restric the referer(sic) header just to have google employees silently remove them later on?
well, I guess it can work if the feature you are paying for is not to improve privacy at the expense of google's Ad business.