What sites make the referrer information anonymous?

Answer 1

Sample services

cleanref.us

hidemyass.com

spoofurl.com

linkanonymizer.net

There are more than one ways to anonymize one's referer. The first method

involves the use of JavaScript to redirect the users. This is done mostly

by changing the window.location property of the DOM to the user-requested

value. Depending on the implementation of each site, some will delay the

redirect (possibly to show advertisements) while others will make the change

immediately. From the above list, cleanref.us does the change immediately

while spoofurl.com and linkanonymizer.net have a small delay.

The second method of anonymizing involves the meta http-equiv header

which is an HTML tag that causes your browser to reload a page after waiting

a specific number of seconds. From the above list, hidemyass.com works

in this way.

A third possible method is to use a HTTP Move message which

redirects a user's browser from the anonymizing website to the

requested one. While this method is the fastest, it doesn't always

clean-up a referer (it depends on the browser vendor and version)

and thus usually avoided.