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I don't get it, can someone explain what is going on here?


By default, when following `<a>` links from site FOO to site BAR, the browser will tell site BAR in the Referrer header[1], that you're coming from the site FOO.

If you add attribute `rel=noreferrer`[2] to the `<a>` tag, the browser will not attach such a header.

It looks like the guys from asahilinux dot org somehow altered the behaviour of their website in cases when Referrer was set to hackernews, so hn added the `rel=noreferrer` to those links.

No idea about the context of the drama though.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...




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