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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by ams6110 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @07:24PM (#16287249)
You can sort of do that, context menu -> copy url -> open a new tab -> paste url
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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by zamber on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:00PM (#16287462)
You can disable refferer sending in FF https://askubuntu.com/questions/797135/how-to-disable-http-r...
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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by paulie_a on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:18AM (#16289745)
Is there a way to randomize the ref url?

It's increasingly becoming impossible to have any actual privacy, so in my opinion the best option is to make the data collected worthless.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by nofunsir on Thursday February 01, 2018 @07:32PM (#16287299)
I do this quite often, and it is indeed usually because I don't want the site to know where I came from.
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