Anyway to block referring website?

I have a group of links on my website. Is there anyway to prevent the owners of the websites from being able to see that my site is linking to them when visitors click on them?

I know there are anonymizer services like http://anonym.to/, but I can’t do any redirects like that.

The individuals can by turning off the referrer header in their browser.

I don’t think there is anything you can do on your site though since that header is under the browser owner’s control.

I would think the easiest way to do it is to set up links through bit.ly, tinyurl or any other such service (or is that what anonym does?), so that users go through a intermediary page before landing on the destination website. It doesn’t look awfully professional to do that, though, so you would have to consider whether it is worth the effort.

An alternative would be to get another domain yourself, and use that to set up instant redirects (which wouldn’t have the amateur look of going through a named gateway page). That would make it more difficult for the website owner to trace the clickthroughs back to you.

Why do you want to hide where visitors are coming from?

First of all, you can’t rag on other websites/companies here.

Second, just put this at the top of your pages:

$referer = $_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER];
if ($refer==“their.ip”) Header(“Location: [yourname.com”);…]

Out of curiosity, why would you want too? It seems rather ominous that your trying to hide your tracks! Either way the only way you could generally cloak it would be to link to a redirection service, it would place something between you (the link host) and the other site (almost like a router) :slight_smile:

I don’t see any “ragging”, and critiquing websites does occur here… just if it’s in the review section :wink: