.onion referrer in website stats?

tb303

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• Jun 19, 2014

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Ive noticed a lot of visitors coming to one of my sites from a .onion referrer.
I know .onion is tor etc but why would it show as a referrer for visitors?

 

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adikk3

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• Jun 19, 2014

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Why wouldn't it show as referrer if its referring visitors to your site?

if some onion site linked to you, and visitors are coming trough this link, it will pass ref data just like any other site

 

Last edited: Jun 19, 2014

tb303

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• Jun 20, 2014
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makes sense i suppose. I was just thinking tor used something similar to https which would not show the referrer. First time ive seen an onion site as a referrer.

 

sirgold

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referrer spamming, the tor way I guess...