Comments on: HTML5 to include- rel=”noreferrer” http://techyoyo.com/2010/01/html5-to-include-relnoreferrer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=html5-to-include-relnoreferrer Tech for the Cool Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:01:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: arun kamath http://techyoyo.com/2010/01/html5-to-include-relnoreferrer/comment-page-1/#comment-191 arun kamath Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:50:35 +0000 http://techyoyo.com/?p=195#comment-191 We do have 'rel=nofollow' for that. We do have ‘rel=nofollow’ for that.

]]> By: Ryan V http://techyoyo.com/2010/01/html5-to-include-relnoreferrer/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Ryan V Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:43:18 +0000 http://techyoyo.com/?p=195#comment-190 Page ranking. Search engines will use the tag to affect page ranking scores. If the website doesn't want referrer information to be sent the link will be interpreted as worthless in page ranking algorithms. Hopefully, the end results will be to make comment spam obsolete. If you force all links in your comments to use noreferrer and so have no page rank value, then there is no incentive for the pervasive and subtle comment spam. i.e. Name: SomeCrap Website: same aggregate link spam site Comment: Great article very informative and well researched! Page ranking. Search engines will use the tag to affect page ranking scores. If the website doesn’t want referrer information to be sent the link will be interpreted as worthless in page ranking algorithms.

Hopefully, the end results will be to make comment spam obsolete. If you force all links in your comments to use noreferrer and so have no page rank value, then there is no incentive for the pervasive and subtle comment spam.

i.e.
Name: SomeCrap
Website: same aggregate link spam site
Comment: Great article very informative and well researched!

]]> By: Rob Mueller http://techyoyo.com/2010/01/html5-to-include-relnoreferrer/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Rob Mueller Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:44:50 +0000 http://techyoyo.com/?p=195#comment-189 As a webmail provider, I would really like this option. Our web interface works even if you disable cookies, but that means it has to put the session id in the URL. That would leak session information when you click on a link to an external site. At the moment we have to use a redirect bouncer (with appropriate security checks), but it would be nice if we could just set an attribute on all links within an email instead. It would be nice on img's with external src attributes as well. As a webmail provider, I would really like this option.

Our web interface works even if you disable cookies, but that means it has to put the session id in the URL. That would leak session information when you click on a link to an external site. At the moment we have to use a redirect bouncer (with appropriate security checks), but it would be nice if we could just set an attribute on all links within an email instead. It would be nice on img’s with external src attributes as well.

]]> By: Mick June http://techyoyo.com/2010/01/html5-to-include-relnoreferrer/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Mick June Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:10:51 +0000 http://techyoyo.com/?p=195#comment-188 We have internal testing and administration for ads. I often test the links to make sure we've set it up right. However, I wouldn't want people seeing the address of these pages in referrer info. I've turned off referral sending in firefox for this reason. There's nothing nefarious about it, and it's a bit silly to think it's only for 'Black Hat forums'. We have internal testing and administration for ads. I often test the links to make sure we’ve set it up right. However, I wouldn’t want people seeing the address of these pages in referrer info.

I’ve turned off referral sending in firefox for this reason. There’s nothing nefarious about it, and it’s a bit silly to think it’s only for ‘Black Hat forums’.

]]> By: ARSCHFICKundSPERMA http://techyoyo.com/2010/01/html5-to-include-relnoreferrer/comment-page-1/#comment-187 ARSCHFICKundSPERMA Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:16:27 +0000 http://techyoyo.com/?p=195#comment-187 Whenever it is possible to leak private data to the other site that is refered to. Dating sites like gayromeo need this to hide personal facts about the visitor. Whenever it is possible to leak private data to the other site that is refered to. Dating sites like gayromeo need this to hide personal facts about the visitor.

]]> By: Graham http://techyoyo.com/2010/01/html5-to-include-relnoreferrer/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Graham Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:13:25 +0000 http://techyoyo.com/?p=195#comment-186 The only reason I can think of is to allow deep linking to resources that have explicitly disallowed this on the server with referrer checking. Not something that HTML should be implementing IMO... The only reason I can think of is to allow deep linking to resources that have explicitly disallowed this on the server with referrer checking. Not something that HTML should be implementing IMO…

]]> By: kurtseifried http://techyoyo.com/2010/01/html5-to-include-relnoreferrer/comment-page-1/#comment-184 kurtseifried Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:49:53 +0000 http://techyoyo.com/?p=195#comment-184 Pretty obvious. Web stats packages/other internal type sites that create HTML documents that contain links to external sites. This prevents information leakage. Pretty obvious. Web stats packages/other internal type sites that create HTML documents that contain links to external sites. This prevents information leakage.

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