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?

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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>
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>I hope this is easy to deploy on library websites, because the privacy enhancement is significant. 
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>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/>
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>Would it be a good idea to make it a required practice for libraries?
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>Eric Hellman
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