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Obscure or prevent referer for outgoing links in piwik via rel=noreferrer (works in Firefox) #3147

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ryrun opened this issue May 18, 2012 · 8 comments
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Obscure or prevent referer for outgoing links in piwik via rel=noreferrer (works in Firefox) #3147

ryrun opened this issue May 18, 2012 · 8 comments
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c: Privacy For issues that impact or improve the privacy. c: Security For issues that make Matomo more secure. Please report issues through HackerOne and not in Github. Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc.
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ryrun commented May 18, 2012

Currently all links of extenal websites will send a referer of the current stats view in piwik (date, websiteid, ...), which could be logged by their stat software.

Would be nice to prevent this.

Some ways to do it:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8893269/what-is-the-most-reliable-way-to-hide-spoof-the-referrer-in-javascript
Keywords: referer
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mattab commented May 24, 2012

Thanks for the suggestion

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mattab commented May 26, 2012

Unfortunately it's not very easy and clean, I wish browsers would implement rel='noreferrer'...

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ryrun commented Jun 4, 2012

Too bad that only webkit support rel='noreferrer'. :( But it could be added to the links anyway.
There is a bug report for firefox about this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530396
It's possible to see this feature in future. I hope.

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mattab commented Dec 14, 2012

Let's do this after Firefox has implemented the feature.

@ryrun ryrun added this to the Future releases milestone Jul 8, 2014
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@mattab what's the status on this? Firefox supports for the rel="noreferrer" attribute since Firefox 33 (although the referrer is still sent when you follow a link through a context menu, for instance when you right click and then click 'Open Link in New Tab').

So, when will Piwik start supporting this?

@mattab mattab reopened this Oct 17, 2014
@mattab mattab removed the duplicate For issues that already existed in our issue tracker and were reported previously. label Oct 17, 2014
@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Mid term, Long term Oct 17, 2014
@mattab mattab added the c: Privacy For issues that impact or improve the privacy. label Oct 17, 2014
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mattab commented Oct 17, 2014

@nicwortel thanks for the tip. is it now supported by webkit + Chrome + Firefox then? that would be very convincing to start setting rel=noreferrer in all outgoing Piwik links!

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@mattab I haven't had the chance to test other browsers, but on my Firefox 33 it seems to work (but, as I said, only when you click the link, not when you right-click it and then click Open Page in New Tab).

@mattab mattab changed the title Obscure or prevent referer for outgoing links in piwik via rel=noreferrer Obscure or prevent referer for outgoing links in piwik via rel=noreferrer (works in Firefox) Nov 27, 2014
@mattab mattab closed this as completed in 9c165f4 Nov 27, 2014
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mattab commented Nov 27, 2014

@nicwortel @ryrun Should be done now!

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