Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

Post by irthomasthomas » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 9:29 AM UTC

irthomasthomas wrote: post #205

jawns wrote: post #16

As best I can tell from perusing the thread: - The Asahi Linux team was "blocking" links to their site from Hacker News by detecting HN as the referrer and redirecting those users to Google. - HN added the "noreferrer" tag to at least one of the links, which tells the browser to not pass the referrer string. This means the Asahi Linux "block," which relies on the referrer information, does not work. - Asahi Linux tea…

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Post by jackvalentine » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 10:06 AM UTC

linster wrote: post #154

0_____0 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My opinion: HN has a particular culture and attitude to discussion that can be grating for non-users. One example: HNers tend to approach topics as if they have a solid grasp on the context of a matter, and are often negative, hence dang's plea against 'middlebrow dismissal.' Another example: the common practice of leading rebuttals to a comment with "No. \n" While that's OK here, there are a lot of people who would…

The other HN tell I’ve started seeing in work chats is excessive italics. I’m not five, I know the gravity of what you’re writing. For example, often HN users need to scold their readers into a hair-splitting debate around semantics . The other one I’ve seen is pretend-gaslighting-as-begging-the-question: “Can we all stop pretending that object-oriented programming is an efficient way to build software?”

Post by yukion » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 10:31 AM UTC

Post by bigbillheck » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 11:11 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #170

jix wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"In doing that they usually jump to the most uncharitable, horrible reasons they can imagine for why we might have done so." So you do understand why one wouldn't want to deal with a significant part of the user base here given that they behave in such ways, and thus why one might want to avoid any traffic coming from here, but feel that it's not your job to deal with those users, because then their behavior would af…

I haven't expressed myself clearly enough if that's a possible response to what I tried to say there. Unfortunately I'm at a workshop today and not free to take the hours I normally would to go over the explanation until it's clearly understandable. I only have a few minutes of break time. Perhaps it would have been better not to try in the first place, under such circumstnaces; but I'm not going to delete my GP comm…

Post by Anthony-G » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 12:13 PM UTC

pseudosavant wrote: post #37

jawns wrote: post #16

As best I can tell from perusing the thread: - The Asahi Linux team was "blocking" links to their site from Hacker News by detecting HN as the referrer and redirecting those users to Google. - HN added the "noreferrer" tag to at least one of the links, which tells the browser to not pass the referrer string. This means the Asahi Linux "block," which relies on the referrer information, does not work. - Asahi Linux tea…

This is enough to make me never touch Asahi Linux. What a childish game for a Linux distro? How dare someone link to their website without their approval...because that is totally how the internet works?? ffs.