I thought the fediverse was a way to give back the power to the users. This doesn't seem great. I don't want mastodon to be famous because it's useful to companies but because it's useful to people.

I don't know the details but hopefully they do something similar to firefox https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/03/22/firefox-87-trims-http-referrers-by-default-to-protect-user-privacy/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Read the article. It is a configurable thing and each mastodon server admin has to activate it in order to send a referer.

[–] 4Robato 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I read the article but I'm worried about the implementation which you won't be able to choose and while you can change server realistically not many people will even know this happened.

I hope the focus is privacy and people and this change dowsn't have people in mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Well, I don't know how you could implement that from a website that would enable people to choose? Not sure that is technically possible.

And of course if you simply telll your browser not to send referer info in headers you won't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

The fediverse is a place where websites automatically share content. What people do with that is wide open.