Nick O'Neill
Nick O'Neill

@nickoneill@sfba.social

Indie iOS/macOS developer, political tech nerd at 5calls.org, and Tailscale

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September 23, 2023

I recently implemented some ?ref=<refcode> tracking on @5calls for a partner link and to my surprise discovered that other sites also send referring domains via the same ref param. I know automatic referral headers were nerfed a few years back, but did I miss a web standard to replace them with a ref param?

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