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		inthewoods on March 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Pinterest HTTPS Will this mean that website will lose the referral info from inbound links to their website from Pinterest? If so, that will really aggravate a lot of people.

notatoad on March 16, 2015 | [–]

They can get their referral info back by implementing https themselves.

untog on March 16, 2015 | [–]

FTA:

"We used a meta referrer header to support HTTPS tracking to HTTP sites."

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