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

Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by mirimir on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:12PM (#16287535)

I use RefControl in Firefox. I've set the default to be the root of the destination site. That is, for example, clicking a link to https://foo.com sends https://foo.com as the referrer.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by robocat on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:29PM (#16287919)

There is an about:config setting called spoofSource which does the same thing I think - see comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16286542

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by mirimir on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:09PM (#16288092)

Thanks. Good to know.

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by nayuki on Friday February 02, 2018 @07:47AM (#16290106)

RefControl is a great add-on, but it isn't compatible with the new Firefox Quantum (57+). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by mirimir on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:49AM (#16291978)

Yes, Quantum will break lots of stuff. Maybe too much for me to use it. Recent Firefox changes have already broken some of my iMacros scripts :(

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