Hiding your blackhat referrer - the easy way (?)

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Hi guys!

My first post here. :)

I currently have to deal with referrer-hiding and read some articles about it.
Most of them describe a very difficult and not-always safe way.

So I wondered, why the following would not be an easy AND safe solution:

Let's say, you have your white hat site [goodsite] and your black hat site [badsite]

So why not just link all affiliate links from both domains via e.g. [goodsite]/out.pl ???
(or call it external_link_counter.pl or whatever)

In both cases, no matter if the ad was clicked on [goodsite] or [badsite], the referrer will always be [goodsite]/out.pl
If someone checks your site, he will notice, that all you external links go through out.pl, which is absolutely not uncommon!

To tweak the thing a bit up, you could let out.pl display a message for e.g. 3 sec. before redirecting like "You are leaving [goodsite]. [goodsite] is not responsible for the content of external links, blah blah blah..."
out.pl could even display this message only of the ad was clicked on [goodsite], but directly redirect the user if he came from [badsite].

As I mentioned above, redirecting the user to external links via an out.pl is absolutely not uncommon. I have seen this on big commercial sites and also a lot of forums.

As I am definitely not the first one coming up with this idea, I would be interested in, where I'm wrong that this, perhaps is not an ideal solution. :confused:
 
No reply? :(

Another idea:
set the referrer to e.g. [site]/shopping_guide/member_area.html

If access by (referrer) from your black hat site, it directly redirects to the affiliate.
Otherwise a login will be shown.
So it looks like, all clicks come from a (password protected) member area.
 
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