This is my last post on the subject. I felt that my position was being read unfairly, and I wanted to set the record straight. I apologize if it did not come off that way as it was clearly not the intention.
I truly believe this is an unnecessary leaking of personal information. And I address the browser argument directly in the post, as well as the argument that no one cares.
Gabriel, there seems to be some confusion here in the thread about "breaking HTTP_REFERRER" or in some way changing the current referrer behavior, which was not how i understood your post.
can you confirm quickly that you are proposing that search engines sanitize/anonymize referrer data, and not that they somehow change the referrer behavior?
I truly believe this is an unnecessary leaking of personal information. And I address the browser argument directly in the post, as well as the argument that no one cares.