John K Mitchell's Misc Blog

For some time now I have been puzzling over entries in my websites' log files. With about 3,500 visitors per day to the site it seems that most of them have no referrer information suggesting that they have keyed in the address of the page to find the site. Now I know that the site has been around for a long while but I can't believe that many people have heard of it, never mind knowing the right page to visit.

Finally I found that there is a way to avoid passing the referrer information when visiting a webpage. In fact there is more than one way including :-

• Right-click on the link and select "copy link location", then paste the URL into the browser's address box, and hit the Enter key on the keyboard.


• Right-click on the link and select "add bookmark" Now you can select the link from the bookmark listing.

Even more worryingly for affiliates and webmasters wanting to know where their traffic is coming from :-
Your local firewall may offer this option. Norton security Suite is supposed to offer this feature.

So does Zone Alarm Pro (from Zonelabs) Directions for Zone Alarm Pro:-

Open up Zone Alarm

Click on "privacy" in the left column

Click on the "Main" tab along the top

In the "cookies" section click on "custom"

in the "3rd Party cookies" section tick the check box "Remove Private Header Information"

While I can understand people not wanting to give away personal information I can not see why people would want to hide how they got to a site. But then I suppose some people have more to hide than others.