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Subject: rel="noreferrer" should be added to all non-public links

V: I can assure you I mean you no harm.
Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Alas, so many quotes, so little room in the signature box.

You only need to change it. There's no save button.

  • 06.02.2012 8:54 PM PDT

Posted by: HappyMeals
Posted by: King Dutchy
Posted by: Skibur
It looks like IE10 will have this by default.


Posted by: Skibur
IE10


-_-


"I don't really know anything about browsers but the old IE had a lot of problems everyone else said were bad so I'm going to completely ignore new IE releases and use Chrome/Firefox."

>cannot into V8 engine

(although I understand the terrible, borrowed logic that people use to hate on IE but holy hell is it slow and a pain in the ass to code things specifically to make sure they work for it; however, it's prob one of the most secure browsers)

  • 06.02.2012 9:03 PM PDT

Posted by: elmicker
you can turn it off in firefox's about:config if it bothers you that much, just set network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0 (def 2).
Except that applies globally.

Posted by: Skibur
It looks like IE10 will have this by default.
If it's the DNT header (Do Not Track) you're talking about, that's not the same. The DNT header is incredibly pointless too, since it requires the server-side to check whether it's present, and even then there's still no reason why it can't or won't track you; there's no requirement that the server has to abide by.

Posted by: mneo
I don't think it's worth the trouble. private groups are not accesible by anyone who is not a member, anyway.
It's not so much about that, but rather the fact that details that are supposed to be private are, well, not private. And at the very least, the linked site will be able to see where you've been linked from (bungie.net), and find the group the link was posted in (assuming the link was posted in a group and not something like a PM).

In fact, this is the same problem with things like Facebook plugins. If content from Facebook is embedded in a webpage (like this one) and you are signed in [to Facebook] while you visit the page, Facebook can then know that you have visited that specific webpage (down to the URL in your address bar) by associating the referring URL that's generated by loading the embedded object (eg. a Like button or conversation box) with your Facebook profile.

This is, IMO, a major privacy concern that is also not limited to Facebook.

  • 06.02.2012 9:12 PM PDT

I don't quite grasp the logic here, however.

You find that other sites will have the links to groups on bungie.net a privacy concern? They cannot know your username unless you provide it, so it's not like they'll know what groups you're in, and the groups are unable to access unless you are a member, aside from the homepage which they are perfectly entitled to view.

  • 06.02.2012 9:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: HappyMeals
Posted by: King Dutchy
Posted by: Skibur
It looks like IE10 will have this by default.


Posted by: Skibur
IE10


-_-


"I don't really know anything about browsers but the old IE had a lot of problems everyone else said were bad so I'm going to completely ignore new IE releases and use Chrome/Firefox."
"I'm going to be an asshat and assume that Dutchy has never even tried IE10 because I like making assumptions."

IE10 is better than it's predecessors, but it still sucks nevertheless.

  • 06.02.2012 9:45 PM PDT


Posted by: King Dutchy

Posted by: HappyMeals
Posted by: King Dutchy
Posted by: Skibur
It looks like IE10 will have this by default.


Posted by: Skibur
IE10


-_-


"I don't really know anything about browsers but the old IE had a lot of problems everyone else said were bad so I'm going to completely ignore new IE releases and use Chrome/Firefox."
"I'm going to be an asshat and assume that Dutchy has never even tried IE10 because I like making assumptions."

IE10 is better than it's predecessors, but it still sucks nevertheless.


"Wow Happymeals you are so right, thanks for telling me, we should hook up some time."

  • 06.03.2012 7:33 AM PDT
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And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

Nerds.

  • 06.04.2012 4:09 AM PDT
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HTML5 attributes in an XHTML 1.0 transitional document? Bad daz! :-p

I think there are some add-ons for Firefox that give you some better controls over that, too. Some websites don't function properly without the referrer string.

Personally, I don't care that much about my referring URL being sent. I like having that analytic data available for websites I run, so it'd be kind of hypocritical for me to take it away from other people. A referring URL isn't really all that personal to me, unless there's a weird situation when someone is using get for an application where they should really be using post.

  • 06.04.2012 5:12 AM PDT

Five years older and wiser
The fires are burning, I'm fire, never tire
Slay warriors in the forests, and on hire

No don't.

Then I can't track you :(

  • 06.05.2012 9:22 AM PDT

Flours2012
Deathcon_5 on Adelais

For Chrome users, you can use an extension to add the tag.

EDIT: the aforementioned extension does it for all links, this will work for external links.

[Edited on 06.06.2012 12:25 AM PDT]

  • 06.06.2012 12:23 AM PDT

Come watch me game
Currently playing:
Diablo 3 (Farming Acts 1-3 Inferno on my Wiz, Act 1 HC on my DH)
Minecraft 360 Edition
Halo 3


Posted by: ctjl96
I don't quite grasp the logic here, however.

You find that other sites will have the links to groups on bungie.net a privacy concern? They cannot know your username unless you provide it, so it's not like they'll know what groups you're in, and the groups are unable to access unless you are a member, aside from the homepage which they are perfectly entitled to view.


This is what I'm wondering. Why exactly should we care that YouTube knows I came from Bnet? How does that affect me?

  • 06.06.2012 10:06 AM PDT

Posted by: Qbix89
Nerds.
Indeed. This thread is way over my head; my talents lie elsewhere.

  • 06.06.2012 10:14 AM PDT
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I apologize in advance for all the crappy jokes I make.


Posted by: Qbix89
Nerds.

You forgot the "Shut up".

  • 06.06.2012 10:23 AM PDT

~Thomsn0w

Posted by: dazarobbo
The increase in privacy.

Good idea.

[Edited on 06.06.2012 1:12 PM PDT]

  • 06.06.2012 1:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: aBlueBookshelf
global warming isn't proven and won't be - it's more of a political play for funding for "research"

Is this a change that the users themselves would have to make or a change for the coding of this site?

  • 06.06.2012 1:27 PM PDT

<_QuAnTuM_>
What's your talent?
Posted by: DabilahroNinja
I can see through windows.

Posted by: WinyPit82
Like they always say, "You mess with the Helix Nebula, you get the WinyPit82."

Hi there! be sure to click that homepage link!


Posted by: dazarobbo
Posted by: jross1993
Sure, why not, eh?

Yeah... I gotta be honest. I'm not entirely sure what you're saying.
I'll explain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89-StESbUyQ

When you click that link, your browser needs to send some information to YouTube's server's. For example, its language, what format it can accept, and so on. However, because the above link is embedded on this page (the one you're looking at), your browser will also send the URL currently in your address bar to YouTube amongst the other aforementioned information (language, formats, etc...). This is called a referer header.

When rel="nofollow" is added to a link on a page, the referer header is not included.
Well then, I say PM Achronos if you haven't already done so.

  • 06.06.2012 2:09 PM PDT

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