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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 fiddlerwoaroof on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:03AM (#16289148)
No, the advertiser doesn’t want their ad to appear on a certain publisher’s web page (e.g. banks often can get in trouble if their ads are associated with certain kinds of content).
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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by sleavey on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:25AM (#16289227)
Ah ok. But why then doesn't the ad's embed code just contain the URL of the page it's on in the query string / POST data? The (website that shows the ad's) server knows what page it is providing.
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Re:Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values... by andrewaylett on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:48AM (#16289486)
I suspect it does? But that's spoofable by the ad aggregator in a way that the Referer header isn't. So much of ad design is (for better or occasionally for worse) defending against bad actors.
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