All About Referrers, and What To Do About Them

When you ask for something from a site, your browser tells the site where you're coming from. When you're asking for other sites' images from our site, sometimes the web server doesn't want to give it to you. If you're using Internet Explorer, skip to the bottom of this page.

You can fix it by doing the following in Firefox:

1. Type about:config into your address bar and hit 'enter'
2. Type Referer (Misspelled, I know!) into the 'Filter' area
3. Right click on network.http.sendRefererHeader, select 'Modify', and then enter 0 as the new value
4. Now when a site asks you where you're coming from your browser will refuse to tell it! This isn't very much fun if you're running a web site and you'd like to see where you're getting traffic from, though, so when you're done using Firefusk please please turn it back to 2, for all of our sakes!

If you're getting this problem in IE or Safari, you don't have enough control over your browser to fix the problem - you need Firefox! Firefox is a web browser like Internet Explorer, but faster, more secure, and all around better. Check out the link below to get a copy of Firefox from Google, then follow the instructions above.