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0 pointsleephillips5y ago0 comments

You can also look at the referrers in your webserver logs. It’s just that someone has to click on the link for it to appear in your logs. And you can discover referrer spam!

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account425y ago

Browsers are not guaranteed to send Referer headers and some choose not to (or send fake ones) due to the privacy implications.

leephillipsOP5y ago

Good point. But, in the absence of any other solution, there is at least some data there, sitting in the log files.

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0 pointsleephillips5y ago0 comments

You can also look at the referrers in your webserver logs. It’s just that someone has to click on the link for it to appear in your logs. And you can discover referrer spam!

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account425y ago

Browsers are not guaranteed to send Referer headers and some choose not to (or send fake ones) due to the privacy implications.

leephillipsOP5y ago

Good point. But, in the absence of any other solution, there is at least some data there, sitting in the log files.

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