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AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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944 points 6a74 | 2 comments | 10 Oct 24 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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hentrep ◴[10 Oct 24 19:38 UTC] No.41802660[source]▶
I noticed the URL was updated for this post. Previously it linked to asahilinux.org which showed an anti-HN manifesto from the HN referral. Curious as I haven’t seen this before. Seems it has been covered by previous commenters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227103
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ginko ◴[10 Oct 24 19:44 UTC] No.41802728[source]▶
How can the site even detect where a user is coming from? Browsers leaking this information seems like a huge privacy issue to me.
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robin_reala ◴[10 Oct 24 19:45 UTC] No.41802741[source]▶
Referer (misspelled in the spec) has been a part of HTTP from day 1.
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ginko ◴[10 Oct 24 19:49 UTC] No.41802788[source]▶
Feels crazy this isn’t disabled by default
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1. bigstrat2003 ◴[10 Oct 24 20:10 UTC] No.41802996[source]▶
Referer does have legitimate uses. For example, back in the day people would use it to detect if someone embedded an image from their site on another site. SomethingAwful famously used to respond to any such requests with goatse, and forums I was on had very strict "don't link to SA images" rules as a result.

I think that using referer to try to deliver manifestos to users of another site is kinda childish, but so it goes. Every tool can be put to good or bad uses.

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2. dylan604 ◴[10 Oct 24 20:23 UTC] No.41803155[source]▶
It's only slightly less childish than the current WP drama.