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		hnha on July 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data It's a violation of browsing privacy. It's noone's business how or why I arrived at a webpage.

grannyg00se on July 10, 2014 [–]

By what edict?

The general default behaviour has always been to let an http server know where you're coming from so that it can take whatever actions appropriate. I don't see how or why there is a fundamental violation of some "browsing privacy" rule here.

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