I love that his page forwards hn users to a tweet[1] that coincidentally accurately describes the content that still thrives on this site.
[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/violenceworks/status/148712570863...
[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/violenceworks/status/148712570863...
I'd love to have a browser setting to just completely disable "Referer:" headers and blank out `document.referrer`. Like, clearly hosts can control referral information to high granularity (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...) but why can't users... (actually apparently you can set this for Firefox)
There is plenty of harm in just this fact alone, because tracking via the other methods is transparent: you know sites are doing internal tracking if you see them being used. With referral information sent by default you have no idea whether the site uses the information or just ignores it.
Either way the important thing shouldn't be how much referral information should be sent (because clearly people disagree on that). Rather all browsers should let you customize this if you want to.
0 - no restrictions (default), 1 - base domain match, 2 - fqdn match
(there's still good content here of course, but I'm sure the tech-crypto-bros are the ones most likely to cause trouble on his site)
How is this site full of crypto nazis exactly? Like seriously dude, how does this "accurately" describe the content on hn?