Closed Bug 1461824 Opened 7 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Investigate the impact of limiting referrer headers for resources on the tracking protection list

Categories

(Firefox :: Protections UI, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Protections UI
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: englehardt, Assigned: englehardt)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

We are interested in knowing whether reducing referrer headers from resources on the tracking protection list causes those resources to load with significantly different content. We would like to test origin only referrers as well as no referrers. We can measure this impact by diffing across three web crawls, two which don't block strip referrers and one which does not. As a first pass we can examine the scripts which serve the same content when referrers are present, but different content when referrers are stripped or origin-only.
Blocks: antitracking
Blocks: cookierestrictions
No longer blocks: antitracking
See Also: → 1530076

We're not going to do this and opt for restricting cross-site referrer headers overall.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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