Personally, I'd rather not have that feature implemented at all, neither for myself nor anyone else, but of course I understand that there are lots of people who want it.
To avoid it, I think there are a few services out there that allow you to direct links via their URL/server in some way so the referrer cannot be guessed by the person whose site was linked to. (I'm just trying to remember the adress of that one I heard of once ...) Though many people won't want to bother with this all the time. And I don't know what for example tinyurl does with referrers.
My suggestion would be to at least display it in some way if a user/journal has Google Analytics enabled/implemented on their journal. On the profile page might be best. So people who are concerned about it can check before they might risk getting into trouble
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Personally, I'd rather not have that feature implemented at all, neither for myself nor anyone else, but of course I understand that there are lots of people who want it.
To avoid it, I think there are a few services out there that allow you to direct links via their URL/server in some way so the referrer cannot be guessed by the person whose site was linked to. (I'm just trying to remember the adress of that one I heard of once ...) Though many people won't want to bother with this all the time.
And I don't know what for example tinyurl does with referrers.
My suggestion would be to at least display it in some way if a user/journal has Google Analytics enabled/implemented on their journal. On the profile page might be best. So people who are concerned about it can check before they might risk getting into trouble