One way is to use the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20240623012818/https://www.jwz.o...

> Some will tell you that Mozilla's worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

If you're concerned about referers, I recommend installing Referer Modifier and setting it to remove cross-hostname referers by default.

I've been using it for years and only had to add about 20 exceptions, like:

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target: imgur.com

origin: -

action: replace

replacement: https://imgur.com/

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target: amd.com

origin: -

action: target

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target: google(\w+)?.com$

origin: google.com

action: prune

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https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/referer-modifier/

Right click open incognito tab

You could also respect the author's desire for this audience to not engage with his takes and move on. Either works.

So if somebody gives me the finger, I can't discuss their publicly stated opinions elsewhere? That's certainly a take.

Yeah no you certainly can do that, but imo it's kinda weird when it's not even something important or anything.

Not important to you.

Which sin is it that referrer even exists?

Is that what he's trying to do? I thought he was just poking fun at the notion 14 that the site is called "Hacker News" but the average reader here needs written directions to circumvent a very old alternate content game from the '90s internet era.

It's a pretty clever ribbing, 10 for 10. ;)

That's actually how I took it as well – a little roadblock that shouldn't keep any real hacker busy for too long :)

If you value privacy, you should disable referers by default. Only enable them if you really have to (there are extensions for that).