Referer

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From: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=6489113
I want to give link to another domain but i dont want web site owners to see my domain as a referer.

What is a Referer

Paraphrased from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer
The referer, or HTTP referer, identifies where the request came from. Referer logging is used to allow websites and web servers to identify where people are visiting them from, for promotional or security purposes.

Most web users do not spoof their referer and it is widely used for statistical purposes.

There are many reasons why websites may not want to be seen as the referrer, the links may be to file-sharing etc. and the website owners would not want to be identified by their referrer links.

Leaving all the ethical issues aside, here are some ways to anonymize your Referer

Referer Spoofing Using Re-Direction Services

Websites like http://anonym.to and http://referhide.com offer Referer hiding by adding a layer between your website and the external website.

Your users will be taken to an intermediate page and then re-directed to the external website. This prevents the original site from appearing as a referrer in the logfiles of the external page.

Refer Hiding Using Redirect Services:
Just add http://referhide.com/?g= in front of any outgoing links on your website.
Example: http://referhide.com/?g=http://www.google.com
OR
http://anonym.to/?http://www.gulli.com/ produces an anonymous link to gulli.com

Adding Referer Spoofing Links Automatically Using Javascript

http://anonym.to offers a javascript file that will append ‘http://anonym.to/?’ before all your external links automatically. You just need to link to their script somewhere in your html file, preferrable right before closing the body tag.

You can specify external websites that you DONT want refer spoofed to in protected_links

From:http://anonym.to/en.html#multiLink
<script src=”http://js.anonym.to/anonym/anonymize.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
protected_links = “”;

auto_anonymize();
//–></script>