FYI, Adam Barth has proposed a meta tag for sites to instruct browsers not to send referer headers in some cases; explanation here: http://www.schemehostport.com/2011/11/referer-sic.html I agree that changes to Referer behavior probably aren't a good idea for this spec, but a proactive privacy-preserving site could use this <meta> proposal to hide unnecessary referrer data when a user arrives with DNT:1. That might be a good example suggestion for the section of what first parties MAY do to respond to the user's Do Not Track preference. —Nick On Dec 2, 2011, at 7:10 AM, Kevin Smith wrote: > I also fear this would have many unintended side effects that would alter the way many websites function. For instance, I have seen it used frequently for simple internal navigation decisions such as redirects and simple 'back' links.
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