One of my favorite plug ins for FireFox is RefControl. One obvious use is for those who use services like Entrecard, which is an easy to understand example. What exactly does the plug in do? It allows you to control what gets sent as the HTTP Referrer on a per-site basis. For those non-tech people, I’ll explain it this way:
When I’m clicking through Entrecard, every time I arrive at a new site, the referrer is Entrecard. In other words, I arrived via Entrecard. Well, that doesn’t do me any good at all. I want every new site I arrive at, to be referred by Revellian.com, not the site I was actually referred from. Why on Earth would I want to do that?
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