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Based on that thread, and some long-ago history with affiliate marketing, I would bet a small sum that they're still doing similar today. They're just hiding it better.

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Seems like it was just indicating "our autocorrect is how the user got here" and there are certainly a LOT of other ways a browser could communicate that far, far more sneakily.

Isn’t that what the the referrer header is for?

The referrer header is for site to site, not directly from browser.

The browser injecting a referrer header seems less transparent than it being in the link, no?

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