Terence Eden on Nostr: Mastodon enforces a "noreferrer" on all external links. I have mixed feelings about ...
Mastodon enforces a "noreferrer" on all external links.
I have mixed feelings about that.
As a blogger, I want to see *where* visitors are coming from. I also like to see (and sometimes join in) with the conversations they're having.
But, I get that people want privacy and don't want to "leak" where they're visiting from.
Is it such a bad thing to tell a website "I was referred from this specific server"?
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2022-11-11 07:09:55 UTCEvent JSON
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