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bug#53281: 29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#53281: 29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:28:21 -0500 |
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Browsers are "supposed to" provide the referrer field "correctly", but
that's not a good thing to do. The effect is to give web sites
avoidable information about users' browsinge habits. Thus, it is
better to do what Icecat does.
I think that Icecat gives a "correct" referrer field when you navigate
between pages in the same site, but gives a fake value when navigating
between sites. I think the fake value may be the same site that you've
navigated to.
I think EWW should do what Icecat does.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)