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Comment by metafunctor | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand the part about JWZ's testicles, so here are the links without bit.ly tracking for those whose ad blockers don't allow them:

- https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/

- https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html

[Edit]: I understand now. My browser doesn't send referrer URLs, and I think that's the real fix instead of using something like bit.ly!

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You still get the testicles if you click this link, at least using Chrome you do. It's because the referrer field is set to HN so they know where the traffic is coming from.

Time to switch to Firefox and give Google less data. Firefox doesn't seem to send the referrer :)

Brave does not send the referrer as well.

Yes it does. I use brave and I get testicles if I click the link.

I've tested it multiple times, as have others. Perhaps you are running an ancient version?

https://brave.com/privacy-updates-5/

Can confirm on android, Linux and windows

Hmmm. I think somebody is following this thread because I got testies using ff on linux by clicking the bitly links above.

haha, same. jwz really wants us to see the testes!

In Firefox set network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy and network.http.referer.XOriginTrimmingPolicy.

Source: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

In Firefox, right-click and open in a new private window and the links will work.

Just tested in Chrome and it works there as well.

In mobile Safari tap and hold, then tap the preview or the open button

I'm using Chrome with uMatrix and uBlock Origin... I assume one of those blocks the data because, somehow strangely, I feel left out that all I'm getting is the websites.

I wonder why someone would setup a "bad result" for specific referrers ...

All good with Brave as far as I can tell. I don't know what everyone is talking about with testicles, but I don't see any with Brave.

just tried it in chrome, i got only one testicle

Does anyone know how to make this right? Would simply removing the mate-screen-saver package work?

haha, yeah. I don't like using URL shorteners either there is just a balance to be made between them tracking you and getting redirected to testicles.

Can't count on everyone having referrer turned off

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