Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

Re:Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noref... by josephcsible on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:07PM (#36231866)

You did the right thing by adding noreferrer to their links. Knowing where people got to your site from without them explicitly telling you is a privilege, and it's one that they chose to abuse.

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Re:Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noref... by asmor on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:30PM (#36232217)

There's a reason websites that host several communities ban such interactions upon the request of the recipient of the traffic; brigading is bannable on reddit.

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Re:Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noref... by dingledork69 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:02PM (#36232714)

Except HN keeps the comments on HN, so it's the opposite of brigading.

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Re:Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noref... by SolarNet on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:42PM (#36248672)

Have you considered that they may have done this in "self defense" to the abuse this aggregator was causing them?

Besides, by your argument, connecting to websites at all is privilege. HN wants the privilege of reading their content (otherwise why not just block their site) without taking any responsibility for it.

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Re:Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noref... by MichaelZuo on Thursday June 08, 2023 @06:30PM (#36250134)

Agree, there's no mandatory standard that there must be valid referrer information on all hyperlinks. It's an optional extra from what I understand.

Similar to how freedom of religion also guarantees the right to not have any declared religion.

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