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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 53281@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53281: 29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:28:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nBUUH-0005Fc-M1@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h79xp691.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri,  21 Jan 2022 14:28:58 +0100)

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

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)
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-23  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-15 11:06 bug#53281: 29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-21 13:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-23  4:28   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-01-23 12:24     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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