Turning that on is probably a GDPR violation for those in Europe.
ETA: Don’t shoot the messenger. I won’t be suing.
I want to see where visitors are coming from. I also like to see (and sometimes join in) with the conversations they’re having.
Imagine this guy contacting you about your bounce rate.
Mastodon is federated and there are thousands of sites. Even if they all opted-in, their statistics will be fragmented.
Surely this alone defeats the benefits for bloggers and other content hosters.
Good for mastodon admins that want the feature to be enabled, I guess, but I don’t see why anyone would do that.
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/
Read the article. It is a configurable thing and each mastodon server admin has to activate it in order to send a referer.
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.
Oh neat! Is there any way to check if my instance has opted into this?
That PR is not even merged and deployed yet. When it gets released: simply ask your instance admin, I guess. (I think looking into the source code might also tell you but no idea where to search exactly)
