Eric - Many thanks for raising awareness of this. It does feel like encouraging good practice re: referrer meta tag would be a good thing, but I would not know where to start to make something like this required practice. Did you have some thoughts on that? — jaf ----------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Frumkin Associate Dean / Chief Technology Strategist University of Arizona Libraries +1 520.626.7296 [log in to unmask] —————————————————————————————— "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein On 6/11/15, 8:25 AM, "Eric Hellman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2015/06/protect-reader-privacy-with-referrer.html <http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2015/06/protect-reader-privacy-with-referrer.html> > >I hope this is easy to deploy on library websites, because the privacy enhancement is significant. > >I'd be very interested to know of sites that are using it; I know Thomas Dowling implemented a referrer policy on http://oatd.org/ <http://oatd.org/> > >Would it be a good idea to make it a required practice for libraries? > > >Eric Hellman >President, Gluejar.Inc. >Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/ >http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ >twitter: @gluejar