Hiding the Referrer

Studyhard123

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Hey guys, I've researched about hiding the referrer from your Network, but I can't seem to grasp it.

If you're using a content locker, how would you hide the page that your using the content locker on, from your network?
 
You would use a redirect script that will blank the referrer first before sending it to your offer link.

Here's an example of a site using the method above:

anonym.to
 
You would use a redirect script that will blank the referrer first before sending it to your offer link.

Here's an example of a site using the method above:

anonym.to

Any idea how I would go on choosing my own sites for the referrer instead of anonym.to?
 
Anonym.to and similar sites are doing simple javascript redirect, where 3 of 5 main browsers will leak your real referrer (occasionally). On your sites, you need CPA-R. Google it, you have standalone version for regular sites and wordpress version 6.2 for wordpress installations.
 
Anonym.to and similar sites are doing simple javascript redirect, where 3 of 5 main browsers will leak your real referrer (occasionally). On your sites, you need CPA-R. Google it, you have standalone version for regular sites and wordpress version 6.2 for wordpress installations.

CPA-R is for redirecting though. I'm using a content locker, so I don't think CPA-R will affect it, as the survey opens on that specific webpage when clicked, and that's what appears on the CPA Networks list.
 
CPA-R is for redirecting though. I'm using a content locker, so I don't think CPA-R will affect it, as the survey opens on that specific webpage when clicked, and that's what appears on the CPA Networks list.

You asked this
"Any idea how I would go on choosing my own sites for the referrer instead of anonym.to"

from my experience, with cpa-r your site would be referrer. Even if that is not a point in this case, many people are doing it, its better to show to cpa company whitehatsite.com from where traffic is coming, instead of blackhatspamsite.com from where the real traffic is actually coming (probably. sorry if wrong). Blanking referrer is actually much worse for them, almost a sure sign for them that you are doing something ...not supported.
if blanking is ok, suggestion above is good, https to http is making it blank 100 %.
 
You asked this
"Any idea how I would go on choosing my own sites for the referrer instead of anonym.to"

from my experience, with cpa-r your site would be referrer. Even if that is not a point in this case, many people are doing it, its better to show to cpa company whitehatsite.com from where traffic is coming, instead of blackhatspamsite.com from where the real traffic is actually coming (probably. sorry if wrong). Blanking referrer is actually much worse for them, almost a sure sign for them that you are doing something ...not supported.
if blanking is ok, suggestion above is good, https to http is making it blank 100 %.

My traffic is legit. It's from google/youtube. It's just that my site is not legit, and I don't want the network to find out I'm placing a content locker on a site that's against their terms. So I want to cover this up. Do you know how I would go off doing this?
 
Cloaking would be an option, but you would need to know reviewer's data in order to show them same page but without content locker. So, nothing is 100 % efficient and safe, whatever some people here claims. Some geo targeting can be done, and script to work just in certain time frames, as well as percentage sampling (for example just 30 of 100 visitors to see content locker page) but at the end everything is risky.
 
When going from HTTPS to HTTP, most browsers don't set the referer field.

Which is a technique google uses....you redirect from your site to some https redirector, then redirect again to http and it won't show the referer.....

Hope this helps ;)
 
Cloaking would be an option, but you would need to know reviewer's data in order to show them same page but without content locker. So, nothing is 100 % efficient and safe, whatever some people here claims. Some geo targeting can be done, and script to work just in certain time frames, as well as percentage sampling (for example just 30 of 100 visitors to see content locker page) but at the end everything is risky.

Surely there has to be another way?

When going from HTTPS to HTTP, most browsers don't set the referer field.

Which is a technique google uses....you redirect from your site to some https redirector, then redirect again to http and it won't show the referer.....

Hope this helps ;)

The thing is, I want to hide the page that the content locker is located on from the Network.
Also, my content locker leads to a download page on my site.

Is it impossible to somehow prevent the network from seeing the page?
 
Surely there has to be another way?


As I said, you can play around:
- geo targeting, find out what is the main office or location or even city of that cpa company and exclude that city or region, make it to show regular page to them.
- make sempling of data, like, to show content locker just to some percent of visitors, like 25 % to 35 % to see locked content.
- make them decoy, make some different website (preferably new and without previous visits) with some offer and ask them for manual review, like, "please check is it everything ready and by your standards, before I start campaign, I don't want problems later" and from the moment that you send email start to collect all visits to site - ip's, hosts, user agent strings, javascript to detect their browser plugins, screen size and all what js can figure out from them, and put them into filters...
- there is a few things more that will not say in public but even with that nothing helps when they are really eager to catch you. You can trigger their filters on many ways, starting from amount of money made in a month to quality of leads - if you are sending 1000 visits a day and make 3 or nothing of conversions, they know that something can be wrong. And when they decide to check it, for real, you probably don't have a chance. Depend of their size and ability to protect their assets, of course. Some smaller companies and aff managers will just visit the site, see that everything is good and that's it. Some of them will go to extend to check your site few times, in various time of a day, from various timezones and places, cities, continents, with various browsers, with or without javascript enabled, from various PC configurations, operative systems, devices, referrers and no referrers... That setup can be done easily (with their resources) to visit your site in same time or short time frame, and of course they can take a snapshot of your site form each of those configurations, all cashed files/saved page/screenshot/crc size/md5 hash value of visited page, and automatically compare all pages to see differences, to see how the page is acting for 8 or 10 different visitors from various locations and all what I just mentioned. Imagine that! So, even if you are working something, and they see some results of your work, leads, conversions, whatever, don't just assume that they are stupid and they don't know how you are making sales. They are just giving you some free space, to take at least something from you, to shave leads, to kick you out 2 days before payment day, etc.
 
I'm using... http://fakereferer.com/

It costs like $1 per URL that you want to fake referer to, but you can use twitter/fb/google etc. as your referer. Perfect for CPA offers.
 
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