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If I were to fork his code I'd fix that the first thing, I'd hate to annoy my users like that.

Reminds me of this jwz post (you have to copy and paste manually since he doesn't like HN as a referrer: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/02/looking-forward-into-the-pa... ).

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This feels like such a weirdly specific block... You have a blog that you want people to read, but not people who come from a specific source

This is why browsers are working to remove user-agent and referer. Almost all real world use is tracking and nonsensical blocks.

I was familiar with removing user-agent work, but what's this about removing referrer? Can you give a link?

Firefox removed the path in 2018 while in private browsing, now their tracking protection is in normal mode too so I imagine it will happen there as well. I'm guessing the only thing stopping them from removing it totally is some sites break if they cant see the domain you came from.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/31/preventing-data...

If one place is a source of much more annoyance than delight, then why not block people coming from there?

Right-click -> Open in Private Tab/Window also strips the referrer, FYI.

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