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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 17:22:28 JST Eugen Rochko

   in reply to

   • Terence Eden
   • Zack Katz
   • Paul Silver

   @paulsilver @zackkatz @Edent This has been fixed a while back.

   • Zack Katz (zackkatz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 17:22:35 JST Zack Katz

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     • Terence Eden

     @Edent Interesting, hadn’t considered that.

     I wonder if there are Mastodon clients that auto-add UTM codes. That’d be *something* at least.

   • Paul Silver (paulsilver@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 17:22:35 JST Paul Silver

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     • Terence Eden
     • Zack Katz

     @zackkatz @Edent UTM tags are automatically stripped from the URL in the preview box created by Mastodon on the web, which is the biggest click target. I think I saw a post by Eugen saying that might be a mistake.

   • Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 17:22:36 JST Terence Eden

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     Two years later.

     Want to know one of the major reasons Mastodon didn't catch on with journalists and large website owners?

     It is *invisible* in referrer statistics.

     Here's my blog from the last month.

     BlueSky now sends me more traffic than Bing.

     How much traffic does Mastodon send? It is impossible to know due to the "noreferrer" header in all links.

     (I'm not saying your privacy isn't important. But you can't grow a community if no-one knows you exist.)

   • Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 17:22:37 JST Terence Eden

     Mastodon enforces a "noreferrer" on all external links.

     I have mixed feelings about that.

     As a blogger, I want to see *where* visitors are coming from. I also like to see (and sometimes join in) with the conversations they're having.

     But, I get that people want privacy and don't want to "leak" where they're visiting from.

     Is it such a bad thing to tell a website "I was referred from this specific server"?