RefHide: Hide Your Referrer
Create an anonymous link that will hide the HTTP Referer header.
Create an anonymous link that will hide the HTTP Referer header.
A RefHide link is a special web link that redirects users to a target website while hiding the original source information. Typically, when users click on a link, browsers send some information, including the "referer". The referer is the URL of the page the user came from, allowing webmasters to track the origin of their visitors. RefHide links work to hide this information.
Using RefHide enhances your privacy protection. Webmasters can use the RefHide link tool to prevent their site from appearing as a referrer in the server logs of referenced pages. This way, the operators of the referenced pages cannot see the specific origin of visitors.
Technically, a RefHide link page is a normal webpage with special scripting. When you create a RefHide link, information about the target page is encoded into the link. When someone clicks this link, the RefHide page parses this information and then uses meta tags to instruct the browser to visit the target page. Because there is no direct link between the original page and the target page, it's impossible to trace back to the original page.