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		account42 on March 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Webmention.io Browsers are not guaranteed to send Referer headers and some choose not to (or send fake ones) due to the privacy implications.

leephillips on March 10, 2021 [–]

Good point. But, in the absence of any other solution, there is at least some data there, sitting in the log files.

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