Thread: Anonymous redirects

When you follow a web link to another site, the destination site can normally tell what site you came from if they are paying attention. This is due to something called the http referrer field. Some trackers take note of this and there have been at least a few people reporting bans in the T-I forums because their tracker saw that an invitee was coming from T-I.



Anonymous redirects have become very common to strip the http field that links to the preceeding webpage. A lot of trackers use them when redirecting to outside sites such as IMDB. And some forums will prefix any external url with an anonymous redirect as well. While it's true that some one could simply copy and paste a link into a new browser tab or window, then tendency of most is to simply click on a link of interest.

It would seem logical that T-I might do the same and prefix external links with an anonymous redirect.
e.g. if a member posts

Code:

http://www.imdb.com then that should transmogrify to something like 
http://anonym.to?http://www.imdb.com or the equivalent .php functionality

Great suggestion. I can see no reason why not to add an additional security measure.

Yes i agree this is a great suggestion to prevent people getting banned because they get their invite from T-I, I am 100% supporting this:p

As far as I am aware we have one running currently - but I will check

actually i don't think its running , as its not working for me if it is running , but yeah its a necessary feature for a site like T-I especially when some trackers don't like there members being on T-I.

Originally Posted by TankGirl

As far as I am aware we have one running currently - but I will check

It's definitely not working for me.

For example if you follow this link..
pgl.yoyo.org/http/browser-headers.php
you will see that the destination page clearly identifies torrent-invites as the referring page.





This is not promising for anyone who follows a posted T-I link to an open tracker, an invite url sent by PM or even a member that is on a T-I page, then clicks a bookmark to their tracker(s).

It transpires that we dont have one, well we do but it doesnt work very well. So this has been taken on board and we are looking into it :)

This has been implemented so I have moved to Completed Suggestions.

Thanks for the heads up guys!

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