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		freeCandy on Feb 14, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with l... I find it insane that everybody is seemingly okay with the fact that websites get to know what a user was browsing before landing on their site. And that there's no straightforward way to disable this behavior without the use of extensions. Highly recommend installing https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-referer

usr1106 on Feb 14, 2025 | [–]

Hmm, the addon description says "has been largely superseeded by better browser defaults"

freeCandy on Feb 14, 2025 | [–]

huh, no idea why it would say that, the only sane default is when referrer is not leaked to websites at all.

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