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by hedora 3453 days ago
Agreed; killing port 80 just decreases the chances the browser makes subsequent port 80 requests.

I still think the referrer is only helping paper over a deeper design flaw (using cookies to carry post state) at the expense of getting some users to trade privacy for availability, and decreasing performance/opening up attacks for people that install extensions as a workaround.