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A lot of features/apps/websites have been built around the assumption that this information is sent, but it would be nice to start dropping it by default.
Or, you could have chosen to not break the RefControl extension, that did this and a lot more.
See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/smart-referer...
One could block refer(r)er altogether, and then adjust on a site/resource basis as needed.
There is one current web extension compatible extension that purports to do this, but when I tried it, it didn't want to cooperate with my configuration, despite adjustments. Further, it sucked Discus comments into its local configuration dialog/page, something that I find... sucks.
Finally, it wasn't open-source and didn't have a well-known provinance. All this didn't leave me feeling too confident in it.
P.S. uMatrix is supposed to provide layers of referrer control, but I haven't made the effort yet to switch over to it including switching some of my other points of configuration to use it instead.
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Yes it's great from a marketer's point of view. From a consumer's point of view, I don't want you to know where I came from. I don't really care if it's useful to you. It's the difference between pleasing marketers vs pleasing users. Firefox chose wisely
Good marketing does please users by delivering them products tailored to them that they may have never knew even existed.
[0]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-referer...
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https://github.com/meh/smart-referer Configurable referer behavior, including whitelist.
uMatrix also has a similar feature, among many others (request blocking by type, cookie and cache management, etc...) https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
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There are some news websites that blocks private browsing[1]. Private browsing is a method of bypass the paywall, so they they make a private-browsing-wall. 1: https://imgur.com/a/gXEtl
What is the current mechanism for them to know that you are in private browsing mode?
As someone that digs in this data for a living, personally strongly believe this should be on by default for all browsing. The example they give is an insanely bad design for healthcare.gov and I would absolutely not want to find that type of data in my analytics telemetry. It is very useful to know where your traffic is coming from, but that’s usually viewed at a higher level than the querystring params being shown.…
Yes it's great from a marketer's point of view. From a consumer's point of view, I don't want you to know where I came from. I don't really care if it's useful to you. It's the difference between pleasing marketers vs pleasing users. Firefox chose wisely
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Yes it's great from a marketer's point of view. From a consumer's point of view, I don't want you to know where I came from. I don't really care if it's useful to you. It's the difference between pleasing marketers vs pleasing users. Firefox chose wisely
You seem to be arguing back, but this user was agreeing with you, saying this behavior should be for all browsing, not just "private" browsing.