Hi Chris, Looks like this is already supported: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#link-type-noreferrer.
Just need to educate web developers to you use it. Peter From: Chris Bentzel <cbent...@google.com> Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 8:07 AM To: Peter Lepeska <bizzbys...@gmail.com>, WHAT Working Group <wha...@whatwg.org>, <public-web-p...@w3.org> Subject: Re: getting rid of anonymizing redirects There's meta referrer on the document. Combining this with <a ping> or Beacon for click tracking may remove many of the needs for redirects. Or do you want something that is per-link rather than per-document? On Tue Oct 07 2014 at 7:59:51 AM Peter Lepeska <bizzbys...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > Some web site developers use redirects to strip out referrer headers from > requests issued from users clicking links on their site. This causes a > blocking round trip and so has a really big impact on web performance. > > Can we give developers an alternative to this technique that will not incur a > performance penalty? For instance, can linkable elements support a > ³no-referrer² attribute or something similar? > > Thanks, > > Peter
