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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by peterwwillis on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:30PM (#16286572)
Also paywall skipping, to track what sites are bringing you traffic, to pass fields to forms to report problems, to present targeted traffic based on use, and of course, advertising.
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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by ori_b on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:34PM (#16286597)
The question was for reasons to __not__ remove them.
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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by mi100hael on Thursday February 01, 2018 @07:49PM (#16287399)
And those are all answers...?
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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by kuschku on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:17AM (#16288981)
How are those answers supposed to convince me to keep the referer setting in my browser on? In fact, they're even more likely to convince me to turn it off.
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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by executesorder66 on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:39AM (#16288849)
They want to know reasons why a user would want to keep the referrer, not the asshole that is tracking them.
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