The great Vimeo thread, Legacy Vimeo thread

Even I can see the referers on vimeo videos if the statistics display is enabled for the video, so it's obvious that the uploader can also see them


That doesn't help if I disable the referer if the hundreds of other people coming here don't and they just click on the link giving away the referer page. You can't make everyone to disable the referer in their browsers before clicking the link. That's why text-only links here are a good idea. In that case the user has to copy/paste the link to the address bar, so the referer won't appear for the vimeo uploader.

That's why I'm proposing making it an official policy to use only text links in this thread (and the Youtube thread as well), and not clickable direct links.

Hi BR,
Yes you make a confusion between I.P. and proxies, and there are different ways to proxify your connection (manually, web proxies, VPN, JohnDonym, Tor, etc.)

@bodilan: I don't have an account on Vimeo, but that's surprising they give the option to users to have access to that kind of data (for what for to start with ?). That members like to know how many times their videos have been viewed can be interesting to assess their popularity, but to let them know about where their viewers come from is of little interest, if any.

One can be certain that suppressing the hotlinks will not solve the problem at all. Why Vimeo uploaders would be scared or worried that people from here are watching their videos, and therefore delete or make them private, whereas if they come from other sites, that would be all okay for them. In short, NOS forum would be seen as a treath, but if the rest of the world watch their videos, that's perfect. That makes no sense.
The problem is certainly elsewhere, like producers monitoring what is posted here and/or on Vimeo, Youtube, etc.

After all everything (or almost) that is posted on Vimeo or Youtube are public no ? So that watchers come from here or from the Moon does not really matter.

Do as you wish

You can just write them in code mode

like

so that the hotlink is neutralized

Video owners may be interested in where their videos are embedded, that's why this info is given. If the stats is not disabled then you can click the stats link on any vimeo video's page and then clicking on top url embeds you can see where the video is embedded.


Some video owners don't mind if their videos are embedded on "art" sites, but they do mind if they are linked from forums where nudity is the main focus. That's why it can be useful if the referer is not given.

Yes but then he would break the no leaking rules

@3bh: interesting story !

"She responded that she hadn't thought of her use of nudity as titillating": or she is naive or hypocrite.

In Western societies (and elsewhere), nudity is always (almost always) titillating, because we live covered with clothes, and when we engage in love and intimacy, that's always naked, so we associate nakedness with love and sexuality. Only peoples who live naked (in Africa, Amazon, etc.) do not have this kind of automatic association.