>> If clients would send referers, servers could collect [...] > > [...] sharing information about the user's browsing behaviour with a > party that does not technically need to know this information [...] > shouldn't be part of a protocol that "takes privacy seriously". Thanks, privacy and simplicity are very good arguments against collecting referers which I fabulated to be useful for establishing (back-)links to external pages that cite the currently viewed page. Getting the impression "backlink" got interpreted differently in other comments of this thread, a quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlink#Wikis: > Backlinks are offered in Wikis, but usually only within the bounds of > the Wiki itself and enabled by the database backend. MediaWiki, > specifically offers the "What links here" tool, some older Wikis, > especially the first WikiWikiWeb, had the backlink functionality > exposed in the page title. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogosphere: > The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections.
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