alt Hacker NewsIf you have a popular website and you add that parameter the target easily sees who sends them traffic, that could be the base of sponsorships / affiliate arrangements for example.
If you have a popular website and you add that parameter the target easily sees who sends them traffic, that could be the base of sponsorships / affiliate arrangements for example.
But you see that anyway from access.log or whatever your server supports and dashboard/analytics shows it anyway? What's the benefit of adding origin to query string?