Re: [syndication] Amphetadesk Referrer

[burton@openprivacy.org]

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"Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes:

> > >Can someone tell me what Amphetadesk puts in the referer field when
> > >collecting RSS? How about when someone clicks on a link to go to the
> > >original article.
> >
> > http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ for the Referer, but that can be
> > changed to whatever the user wants (it's not a GUI frontend change, because
> > I ultimately felt that I couldn't explain it easily enough).
> 
> Are you allowing the users to enter a username anywhere?  If so, then how
> about a checkbox somewhere that allowed them to indicate the use of it tacked
> onto the regular referring user agent string?  If not the username then how
> about a web site URL?(encoded of course)
> 
> That's what's being done in some other reader products.
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Disabled by default of course... this would be a big privacy invasion otherwise.

Kevin

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