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Everyone who can now see your entire internet hist...
Bad news for
https://howtoopenanumberedaccount.com
visitors (Host header in plaintext) and people who click on links to
http://ponies.net
from
https://reddit.com/r/LaunderYourCash
(Referer header in plaintext)
bkor
on Nov 25, 2016
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AFAIK browsers will not provide a referrer if the previous page in case you go from https to http. Firefox has an option to disable https to https referer sharing btw.
m0nty
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Presumably the non-https assets which get pulled in when the main request is fulfilled could also act as a "fingerprint" of the page you are visiting?
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