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It's pretty crazy that browsers send referral in the first place. Getting rid of it, accidentally or not, is not a bug.

I use refcontrol[1] to spoof the referral. I'm always visiting from the front page of the website even though I'm almost never visiting from the front page.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

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Exactly. On Chrome, I use Referer Control [1], which I guess does the same.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...

It's also very good to avoid those annoying image hostings that serve you a .html page with ads when they detect you click a .png file from another web page or those that just show you a image asking you not to hotlink content.

Not that crazy. It has valid use detecting/preventing hotlinking/bandwidth leeching. Plus otherwise how would you find out what search terms were driving traffic?

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