Allow the removal of HTTP referer even when landing on a whitelisted hostname

gorhill / httpswitchboard

Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.

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Allow the removal of HTTP referer even when landing on a whitelisted hostname #143

Open gorhill opened 10 years ago

gorhill commented 10 years ago

"Remove third-party HTTP referer information for non-whitelisted hostname"

should be renamed

"Remove third-party HTTP referer information:"

And provide a choice of two flavors:

Strict: Remove HTTP referer if source and destination are not on the same domain
Loose: Remove HTTP referer if source and destination are not on the same domain AND if destination is not whitelisted.

Currently only the "loose" mode is available.

Thought?

skudo12 commented 10 years ago

Good idea.

ghost commented 10 years ago

Yes, it's a good idea. However, my lessons learned from extensions like RefControl (Firefox) and Referer Control (Chrome) tell me that you need to define exceptions for some sites (at least when using the strict flavour). Otherwise they will break. I had already suggested somewhere else to add that functionality to the context menu.