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Looks to be a service to remove the HTTP referer header when linking to other sites. Say your on example.com and click a a link to foo.com the browser will sen
by blacha 5y ago
Looks to be a service to remove the HTTP referer header when linking to other sites.
Say your on example.com and click a a link to foo.com the browser will send the http header `Referer: example.com` in the HTTP get to foo.com, this means foo.com can then track how you came to their site.
- programmer_dude 5y agoLOL, why do you need an "accelerator" for this?
- mcintyre1994 5y agoIt's about accelerating the networking performance from the user to a server doing the work. You don't need to do it but it's always going to be a limit on performance if you don't, no matter how fast you make the application server itself.
- orf 5y agoIt’s explained in detail in the article.
- gadders 5y agoThe only place I've even seen this is torrent sites linking to IMDB. Does it have a legitimate use?
- homero 5y agoLinks in web email clients