Google show iron fist on chrome, no feature that damage monetization of search. (google.com) 6 points by gcb 14y ago ↗ HN
[–] gcb 14y ago ↗ Every other browser on the planet allows for referrer to be (a) disabled (b) enabled only for the same domain.but google not only avoids this feature as they does away with the community patches. and close forums threads.There were already two patches that made it to chromium just to vanish later.one enabled the --no-referrers comand line flag. gone.another had the Preference "enable_referrers": false. gone.and i'm using the slow debian builds... who knows what else is gone from the hourly releases...
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 14.7 ms ] threadbut google not only avoids this feature as they does away with the community patches. and close forums threads.
There were already two patches that made it to chromium just to vanish later.
one enabled the --no-referrers comand line flag. gone.
another had the Preference "enable_referrers": false. gone.
and i'm using the slow debian builds... who knows what else is gone from the hourly releases...