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Burger Time for the Apple ][ was apparently a pile of copy-protection triggers with a mediocre video game attached to it.

jwz has an entertaining referrer check on that link...

You can avoid that by setting a referrer header override for jwz’s site in your Firefox settings, so his site never sees the HN referrer.

Luckily it seems like browsers are starting to retire that header soon anyway, so his annoying trick will break.

I don't believe they're retiring that header totally, just returning only the domain, and not the full path. Correct?

It's only in "Private Browsing Mode", not for the everyday part of Firefox, firstly.

Secondly, you're absolutely correct, they're just stripping path information, not the domain.

Yeah, it's pretty childish.

Just open the link in incognito mode.