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- noun Common misspelling of
referrers . Plural form ofreferer .
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Examples
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It appears a webmaster is now noticing a bot named MSLIVSOP serving up fake, site-specific keyword referers, as reported earlier.
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The Journal said these IDs could be included in the "referers" that websites send to other sites to tell them where the user came from.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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But sanitizing referers in a way that works in all browsers is not an easy thing -- see this lengthy explanation from the Facebook engineering blog for the grisly details.
Latest Facebook privacy scare isn't so new Rob Pegoraro 2010
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On Facebook and other social-networking sites, referers can expose a user's identity.
Larry Magid: Facebook's latest privacy flap is due to Web plumbing, not policy Larry Magid 2010
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But that becomes possible when the referers include a person's social network ID.
Facebook: Congressmen Sent You A Message AP/The Huffington Post 2010
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The Wall Street Journal calls referers "one of the Web's enduring privacy weak links."
Facebook games privacy breach: Farmville, Texas HoldEm, other games release user data Melissa Bell 2010
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On Facebook and other social-networking sites, referers can expose a user's identity.
Larry Magid: Facebook's latest privacy flap is due to Web plumbing, not policy Larry Magid 2010
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On Facebook and other social-networking sites, referers can expose a user's identity.
Larry Magid: Facebook's Latest Privacy Flap Is Due to Web Plumbing, Not Policy Larry Magid 2010
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On Facebook and other social-networking sites, referers can expose a user 's identity.
Facebook in Privacy Breach Emily Steel 2010
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But sanitizing referers in a way that works in all browsers is not an easy thing -- see this lengthy explanation from the Facebook engineering blog for the grisly details.
Faster Forward: Latest Facebook privacy scare isn't so new Rob Pegoraro 2010
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