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>>6a74+(OP)
I noticed the URL was updated for this post. Previously it linked to asahilinux.org which showed an anti-HN manifesto from the HN referral. Curious as I haven’t seen this before. Seems it has been covered by previous commenters: >>36227103

>>hentre+WV
How can the site even detect where a user is coming from? Browsers leaking this information seems like a huge privacy issue to me.

>>ginko+2X
Referer (misspelled in the spec) has been a part of HTTP from day 1.

>>robin_+fX
Feels crazy this isn’t disabled by default

>>ginko+0Y
Referer does have legitimate uses. For example, back in the day people would use it to detect if someone embedded an image from their site on another site. SomethingAwful famously used to respond to any such requests with goatse, and forums I was on had very strict "don't link to SA images" rules as a result.

I think that using referer to try to deliver manifestos to users of another site is kinda childish, but so it goes. Every tool can be put to good or bad uses.

>>bigstr+m11
It's only slightly less childish than the current WP drama.