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Here's a question about lemmy.world: Does it send a referrer, when you open a link there? (social.heise.de)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's a question about lemmy.world: Does it send a referrer, when you open a link there?

Because feddit.org (which is also an #Lemmy) does, but lemmy.world seems to not do that? Is that right and if yes, intentional?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

we currently have a Referrer-Policy that doesn't share the referrer with third party sites, so your observation is correct.

it's a mechanism to reduce potential for user tracking.

this is similar to the default behavior seen on mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/33214

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

@MrKaplan

Thanks for the answer and the confirmation.

You're right about it being the default on #Mastodon, but it can be changed now. mastodon.social now sends a simple referrer and where's the harm on a bigger platform with many different users?

Here's a nice explanation for why it could help adoption and help with the visibility of a platform like lemmy.wotld without making users unsafe:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/mastodon-now-sends-referer-headers-hurrah/