- From: et <et@ipro.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:06:55 -0700
- To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>, "http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com" <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "'hallam@Etna.ai.mit.edu'" <hallam@etna.ai.mit.edu>
I have been following this thread for the past couple of days and being from a company that makes its living from measurement and analysis on access information of most of the major sites on the internet I can assure you that the refer field is of the highest importance to advertisers and sites. I agree with phil that we live in a capitalistic society where advertising pays for a great many things or subsidizes them. For example magazines and newspapers. I do agree that privacy is a concern on the Internet but if we as technologist do not provide a solution to content providers that will provide this information then sites and advertisers will just figure a way to hack around it. You see this already with sites like yahoo that redirect back to there sites when people leave. This is a performance hit that yahoo is willing to accept and apparently so is the consumer.
Received on Thursday, 11 July 1996 11:11:08 UTC