Closed stevejalim closed 4 years ago
@valgrimm May I grab a view on this from you as PO?
Need Chris' take on this on Thursday, deferring to his judgement as discussed
Chris and I talked today about this and he said that it is fine to leave off the noreferrer header so other Moz properties know we are sending them traffic.
For now, in the circumstances, am merging this as-is, and the rel attr can be loosened off in the future, if need be
For links that use
target="_blank"
we already hadrel="noopener"
set and sometimesnofollow
and sometimesnoreferrer
, but this changeset brings them all into line so that ALL of them usenofollow noreferrer noopener
for consistency and predictability. (I've also seen this pattern used by Mozilla Hacks blog.)This does raise questions about SEO and analytics, regarding
nofollow
andnoreferer
and we could in the future support fine-grained control over those values for links.Please feel free to disagree!
(Related issue #1758)
How to test
nofollow
is definitely worth it and whether we are comfortable with/withoutnoreferrer