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Here's a question about lemmy (social.heise.de)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/support@lemmy.world
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Here's a question about lemmy.world: Does it send a referrer, when you open a link there? Because feddit.org (which is also an #Lemmy) does, but lemmy.world seems to not do that? Is that right and if yes, intentional?@support

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[โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

we currently have a Referrer-Policy that doesn't share the referrer with third party sites, so your observation is correct.

it's a mechanism to reduce potential for user tracking.

this is similar to the default behavior seen on mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/33214

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  • [โ€“] [S] 4 points 1 year ago

    @MrKaplan Thanks for the answer and the confirmation.You're right about it being the default on #Mastodon, but it can be changed now. mastodon.social now sends a simple referrer and where's the harm on a bigger platform with many different users?Here's a nice explanation for why it could help adoption and help with the visibility of a platform like lemmy.wotld without making users unsafe:shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/masto

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