Back in 2022, I wrote this rather grumpy post on Mastodon, the federated social media platform. @
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Well, I don’t know how you could implement that from a website that would enable people to choose? Not sure that is technically possible.
And of course if you simply telll your browser not to send referer info in headers you won’t.