Promoters checking where you surfed from nightmare.

emiai

No idea, I guess we need someone who understands it to tell us, does dragging the url into a seperate IE window mask the referrer too? I tried looking it up but it hurt my brain!

I did manage to find out that cutting and pasting blocks it, because some website owners wanted to find out how people were managing to do it.

kisto

booberrymuffin wrote: »

If you right click and open in a new tab does that still show them the referrer?

In Firefox it does show the referrer if you do it that way. To test it for yourself right click on a link and select to open it in a new tab. Then whilst on that new tab, from the menu bar select Tools> Page Info - then about the 6th line down it says "referring URL".

If you drag a link to the tab bar, then follow the same procedure (Tools> Page Info) you will see there is no referring info.

I have no idea about Internet Explorer as I never use it.