Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties

Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by marcell on Thursday February 01, 2018 @06:36PM (#16286988)

If you have a giant traffic spike, it's nice to know where it came from. Eg. if you get linked on Hacker News, you can go to the thread and engage with potential customers.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by orthecreedence on Thursday February 01, 2018 @07:59PM (#16287457)

Weird, every time I get HN traffic the referrer is the HN homepage, never individual posts. Is it just me?

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by yorwba on Thursday February 01, 2018 @11:43PM (#16288472)

I guess that's because people click on the link while it's on the frontpage, not from the post's comments section.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by joelthelion on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:10AM (#16289168)

Of course, but that's from the point of view of site owners. Browsers are owned by their users.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by alkonaut on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:18AM (#16289746)

That's not really a direct reason for the client to send them though. There are tons of useful things about referrers to the host.

Stripping everything but the domain should be mostly ok for the client though, so if I come from a.b.com/foo, it just sends b.com as referrer? Both "a" and "foo" can hold any amount of data so those would have to go. Sending b.com should be enough to provide traffic statistics?

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