referers and W3 (fwd)
Eric Murray
ericm at lne.com
Sun May 18 18:22:13 PDT 1997
Hal Finney writes:
> I use Eric Murray's fine "cookie jar" privacy program when I am web
> browsing on my Linux system (http://www.lne.com/ericm/cookie_jar/).
Note that it'll work with a non-UNIX browser just fine. You do need to
have access to a Unix host to run the cookie jar program itself, but you
can tell your Windoze browser to use cookie jar as a proxy.... I run my Mac's
browser through it.
> It blocks cookies and advertisements via a very flexible config file
> mechanism. It also eliminates other privacy-revealing outgoing data,
> including Referer, and could be easily modified to play all kinds of
> games with Referer for the adventurous.
Sounds like an idea to go along with the User-Agent spoofing I added recently.
What would make sense to use, other than sending
"http://this/is/a/bogus/referrer/sent/to/mess/up/your/stats"?
How about sending the current URL as Referrer?
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