Ancestors

Written by Rimu on 2024-12-15 at 01:06

Mastodon Now Sends Referer Headers! Hurrah!

https://piefed.social/post/372970

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Written by solrize@lemmy.world on 2024-12-15 at 01:10

That doesn’t sound good? They are privacy invasive.

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Written by mitram2@lemmy.pt on 2024-12-15 at 01:21

It’s the instance admins’ decision whether they want it or not.

Talk to your admins or move to another instance if you disagree with them

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Written by solrize@lemmy.world on 2024-12-15 at 01:53

I’m not personally affected since I don’t use Mastodon. That doesn’t make it a good idea.

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Written by Kichae@lemmy.ca on 2024-12-15 at 02:14

I guess it depends on what you want. If you want to be totally anonymous on the internet, then it’s a bad idea. If you want people to use Mastodon, then it’s probably an OK one, since the way people use microblogging is to follow famous people, and famous people aren’t using Mastodon unless there’s evidence that there’s an audience there for them to play to.

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Toot

Written by solrize@lemmy.world on 2024-12-15 at 02:31

It’s less a matter of anonymity as wanting to maintain some basic privacy. If you want to tell someone where you learned about something, that’s great, go ahead and tell them. To have them extract the info from you without your knowledge is dystopian. Referers should have been banned as soon as the web became commercial.

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Descendants

Written by nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip on 2024-12-17 at 06:53

Having info “65 people visit this site from Lemmy.world” doesn’t seem to be that invasive tho.

I can see blogger and other creator utilize this to connect with community.

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Written by solrize@lemmy.world on 2024-12-17 at 08:35

The referer header tells the site which specific users and which specific clicks came from lemmy world. Revealing the number of users (as Mozilla wants to do) is also invasive even if it doesn’t single out the user. The thing to ask yourself is “site X wants information Y. What does X want to do with the information?”. If the answer can possibly be “something bad”, then should not get the information unless the user opts into sending it.

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Written by nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip on 2024-12-17 at 10:01

I see.

At least making them optional is good, especially for political context.

For creator related stuff, I can see instance like Misskey.design community benefitting from this tracker.

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