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Traffic spoofing / hiding traffic origin (11)

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If I want to send traffic to a site, but do not want the site owners to know it is from popups on various sites, is there a way to hide where it is coming from? or more ideally to make it look like it is coming from somewhere more legit, like facebook etc?

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You can use double meta refresh to hide traffic source origin - in this case destination site will see your site as a referer (if you place double meta refresh html page on your server).

Refrer information is generated on client side (web browser) and then sent to destination page (hosted on your customer's server). So if you have this funnel:
1. Your traffic source -> 2. Intermediate page on your server -> 3. Your customer destination page.

on step (2) end user surfer browser will generate referer and will redirect user to step (3) In this case you don't have control over the situation.

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Double meta refresh or meta refresh followed by a js form submit will work 99% of the times.

If you want to be 100% sure though you have to use a SSL certificate on your server. That will clear 100% of referrers.

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Can you explain this a little bit more how exactly it works?
Interesting for me would be how fast the redirects are.
Because when I use CPV Lab's option to hide the referrer the redirects are pretty slow sometimes (up to 2 seconds).
And how accurate is it when I use a SSL certificate?

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Could you elaborate on how to make such a page?

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The default behavior is that browsers will not send referrer information when going from HTTPS to HTTP.

!!! However, browsers will send referrer when going from HTTPS to HTTPS.

Also, in HTML5, there is a new meta tag named referrer, that looks like this:

New browsers have already implemented this. So whether or not browsers will send referrer, will depend on this meta tag in the near future. If this meta tag is not included in page's HTML, then browsers will use the default behaviour.

Following are the possible values of content attribute of referrer meta tag:
- no-referrer: Referrer will not be sent, regardless of HTTP or HTTPS
- origin: Only the origin (main) domain will be sent as referrer
- origin-when-crossorigin: Same origin will send full referrer URL and cross origin will send only origin URL as referrer
- no-referrer-when-downgrade: This is the default behaviour when no referrer meta tag is provided on the page.
- unsafe-url: This will always send referrer, regardless of HTTP or HTTPS

Also, there are some legacy attribute values for referrer meta tag. These are no longer recommended, but used in many sites at the moment:
- never: same as no-referrer
- default: same as no-referrer-when-downgrade
- always: same as unsafe-url



Copy/Pasted from here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...m-a-https-page

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Keep in mind with DMR you'll experience huge click loss.

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I usually do not use it as I noticed a huge click loss using double meta refresh

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fake keywords and ref?

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Could you give little more info?

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I use prosper202 to fake referrer. (i think this one uses POST)
Or there you have a script "CPA redirector" for WP.

Fake is better to blank. Why? Because if there is no referrer, people start wondering, why is that.
If they see a legit website - they do not ask questions themselves anymore.
Usually i have a legit blog/website on the domain so that it shows as legit site/referrer if visited.

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