Option to remove URL referrer?

[mark42823]

Is there an option to remove the referrer from URL's on Proboards?

Some background :

I am reditrecting all X and Twitter URLs to xcancel.com in my Firefox.

This is partly in due to Musk's response to the recent racist rioting here in the UK, but also xcancel is much tidier, lightweight an without the bloat and noise of the actual x/twitter site.

The problem is that xcancel.com throws a wobbler an serves up a 403 Forbidden error if there is a referrer in the URL.

I then have to edit the url to remove the referrer...so, looking for an option on Proboards to not include it in the first place.

[Craig]

Hi

Are you talking about the link when clicking on an embed?

If so, that ( the embebbed content ) would be set by twitter, and would not be something ProBoards has control over, i'm afraid.

Craig

[mark42823]

Aug 6, 2024 6:11:59 GMT -8 Craig said:

Hi

Are you talking about the link when clicking on an embed?

If so, that ( the embebbed content ) would be set by twitter, and would not be something ProBoards has control over, i'm afraid.

Craig

Hey, Craig

It does seem to be coming from Proboards rather than Twitter/X unless I am very much mistaken...

Sample URL (spaced to stop it being converted) :

htt ps://twit ter.com/BladeoftheS/status/1820532705165193523?ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fukpollingreport2.proboards.com%2Fthread%2F91%2Fjuly-2024-general-election-results%3Fpage%3D122



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EDITED TO ADD -

Also, I am not going to Twitter / X.

My browser reditrect converts it to the following URL :

xcancel.com/BladeoftheS/status/1820532705165193523?ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fukpollingreport2.proboards.com%2Fthread%2F91%2Fjuly-2024-general-election-results%3Fpage%3D122

...which then result in a 403 forbidden error.

When I remove the referrer manually, as below, it then works fine.

xcancel.com/BladeoftheS/status/1820532705165193523

[Scott]

mark42823 - the referral or (ref) is part of the embed API that X uses (as does YT) for statistical tracking, to see where traffic is coming from.