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iggldiggl
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20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one ...
That'd still break the distinction between hotlinking and the user using a bookmark or copy/paste to directly open the URL in question.
h_anna_h
on Feb 9, 2021
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Letting the sites distinguish between the two does not seem to be in the interest of the user.
iggldiggl
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Well, it'd mean that any site blocking hotlinking would also automatically block direct bookmarks/URL entry, too, which isn't really in the "interest of the user" either, I'd say.
brianush1
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If Chrome suddenly stopped sending referrer headers, let's be real here, 99% of websites would be fixed within a couple of days at most.
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