https://zpalexander.com/tags/privacy/Recent content in Privacy on Zach AlexanderHugoen-usFri, 08 Jul 2016 12:54:31 -0700https://zpalexander.com/posts/your-referer-is-showing/Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:54:31 -0700https://zpalexander.com/posts/your-referer-is-showing/<p>Did you know that every time you click through to a new webpage, you&rsquo;re voluntarily telling that new webpage where you came from?</p> <p>This isn&rsquo;t a trick by the NSA, its just the way the web works. As most people know, whenever you click a hyperlink, the browser sends a request to the resource on the other end of the link. What most people don&rsquo;t realize is that by default the request contains the referrer field, which indicates the page where the user clicked the link.</p>