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[SashaGreat]

On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 12:52:54 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 12:49:39 UTC, SashaGreat wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 11:43:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> The reason for the non-specific link is your votes aren't 
>>> counted if you access it with the specific one.
>>
>> How do you know that?
>>
>> I mean this seems a bit awkward, because if you say is true, 
>> I'm pretty sure they would know this by setting something 
>> trough cookies, so if I access the direct link then go to main 
>> page and finally go back to the link it would work? This sound 
>> crazy!
>
> If they do it, they can just look if you came from the homepage 
> because the browser sends where you came from (Referer header)

Will this work even if Not Tracking is enabled?

If it's the case then just refreshing or open the link in another 
page would clear the Referrer Header right?

S.