RefControl - Stop those thieves ;)

RefControl is the latest firefox addon. This control prevents the websites from peeping into our recent web history.

When we go to a website, the scripts in the page could easily find out the site from which we had visited the site or in short the referring website. This is an inbuilt functionality in the internet mechanism which lets the webmasters determine the source and then improve their commerce and business models.

But many consider this to be an infringement of their privacy and have been complaining. The RefControl addon may solve this predicament. It will block all the websites from reading the recent history. It can also be configured to send null value or a custom message.

It can be downloaded from here. Once installed, it will be reflected in under the tools menu. The interface looks like this and is very easy to work around.

By default, RefControl blocks all the sites from reading the data. It is very easy to use and can be
configured very easily.




One has to add the website and then select one of the three given options, whether to block, or send the null value or send a default message.