[sirsar]

jwz isn't a fan of this site. Last I checked, if the referer was news.ycombinator.com, it redirected to a testicle in an egg cup.

[DonHopkins]

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a testicle in an egg cup." Now they have two problems.

[gield]

For anyone who is as curious as me and wants to test it: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

[bscphil]

This is one reason I love having changed network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy[1] in Firefox. I never send the referer to third party domains, and I've only ever seen one or two sites broken because of this. It's a vast improvement for privacy as well.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

[spondyl]

Once you go to the link directly, it appears to work fine coming from HN? It seems to work consistently if you visit (from this thread) in a new tab

[rrix2]

jwz's entire site checks your Referer header and does this if it comes from HN.