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RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:09 pm
by MonztA
Ares mentioned he uses
RefControl here. There is also a
testing page to check whether the referrer is transmitted.
I installed it and wanted to test it via the preview feature but FF still transmits the referrer (I added forums.lanik.us to the list of RefControl and set it to "block").
Any ideas?
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:03 pm
by Hubird
I've been using it for a little while now I think your problem is that it is not configured properly. I have it set so that it always sends the base url of the site and it works fine on the test link. It does cause problems now and then so keep that in mind when sites don't work.
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:14 pm
by MonztA
It does not work for the first 3 sites. If I got to
http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/ and click on the test page at the bottom, no referrer is transmitted.
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:19 pm
by Hubird
I set my up similar to yours and when I load the test page the referrer is blank (as it should be), I'm not sure what is causing your problems
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:10 pm
by MonztA
That's weird. I tried it with an other FF profile. Same problem.
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 3:39 pm
by Ares2
"Site" means "destination site" (=the one that receives the referer), not the site you are coming from.
Example link:
http://www.google.com/
If you click on the link here, adding
lanik.us <Block> will not block the referer, you have to add
google.com <Block> to do that.
So if you don't want other sites to know that you are coming from lanik.us, you will have to set the
default setting to
<Block> or
<Block> (3rd party) or
<Forge>.
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:13 pm
by MonztA
D'oh! Thanks for clearing that up.
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:31 pm
by bee
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:48 pm
by Michael
While removing referrers is generally a good idea, it can cause problems for website buttons redirecting to the W3 validator, as the default button links to
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer. Would it be possible to "whitelist" the site in beefree?
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:15 pm
by bee
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:08 pm
by Joe
why using refcontrol or any other extensions when you can do it in about:config?
just set
network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0
and
network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer to false
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:25 am
by Hubird
Refcontrol can do more than just not send the referrer (which breaks a lot of sites). It can fake the referrer which is as good as not sending it at all but with much less site breakage...
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:02 pm
by bee
Re: RefControl does not work here/on phpbb forums?
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:15 pm
by Erunno
I've set up RefControl to forge the referrer across domains only as I've experienced some problems with secure sites otherwise. I'm content with my level of privacy as long as I can't be tracked across domains that easily.