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A comment on Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties. Parent comment

Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by throwaway2016a on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:42PM (#16286656)
Referral headers can be very useful for tracking down fraud and phishing activities.

Although tracking down fraud is usually as it relates fraudulent traffic which mostly effects advertising so I imagine a lot of the commenters here would say that is not a good reason.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by beardog on Thursday February 01, 2018 @06:30PM (#16286948)
Sites can outright disable referrers using a meta tag: https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/#referrer-policy-no-re...
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