http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2010/10/19/referrer-madness/ Mon, 14 May 2012 15:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2010/10/19/referrer-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-20772 Winston Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:33:31 +0000 http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/?p=764#comment-20772 It's not really as complicated as that. There's no reason Facebook needs to ever have personally-identifying information in the URL. They could use cookies (rather than the URL) to track who the user is, or send information by POST rather than GET (which would result in it not appearing the the URL) It’s not really as complicated as that. There’s no reason Facebook needs to ever have personally-identifying information in the URL. They could use cookies (rather than the URL) to track who the user is, or send information by POST rather than GET (which would result in it not appearing the the URL)

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