referrer hider

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  sbandtg · Member · Aug 4, 2013 at 1:20 am

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  Hello there — I am trying to understand what a referrer hider does. I am about to make my blog go public and want to know if I should click the: (Settings/Reading)/Link Visibility : I would like my links to be public, without being passed through a referrer hider. Advice? Thanks!! –Tamar

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  rachelmcr · Member · Aug 5, 2013 at 4:00 pm

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  Hi Tamar,

  The referrer hider is for private blogs, so you don’t need to worry about it if you are making your blog public.

  When a link is clicked on your blog to somewhere else, a referrer record is brought with the browser. This record says, “this is where I came from,” and is recorded in most stats systems. To keep your private blog completely hidden, we offer a referrer hider at http://href.li which is prepended to your links and removes the referrer record, so your private blog’s location is never recorded as a referrer.

  If you have any questions about this, please let me know!

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  sbandtg · Member · Aug 5, 2013 at 4:13 pm

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  perfect! thank you.