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This feels like such a weirdly specific block... You have a blog that you want people to read, but not people who come from a specific source



If one place is a source of much more annoyance than delight, then why not block people coming from there?


This is why browsers are working to remove user-agent and referer. Almost all real world use is tracking and nonsensical blocks.


I was familiar with removing user-agent work, but what's this about removing referrer? Can you give a link?


Firefox removed the path in 2018 while in private browsing, now their tracking protection is in normal mode too so I imagine it will happen there as well. I'm guessing the only thing stopping them from removing it totally is some sites break if they cant see the domain you came from.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/31/preventing-data...




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