On Jan 28, 2:51 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote:

> In fact, I'm not really sure what the privacy issue is at all. Why do
> you suppress the referrer header?

If a site knows your identity, i.e. when you're logged in, this site
may gather referrer URLs of pages that you have visited. Catchword is:
user profiles.

There are many companies - and I wouldn't exclude Google here - that
are very interested in such user profiles. They never say exactly what
they are really doing with the gathered informations - although it's
easy to guess: Finally they want make money out of it

So suppressing the referrer header is only one precaution amongst
others.
Especially Javascript can be very talkative.

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