Link Anonymizer Plugin?

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Does anyone know of a wordpress plugin that will hide the referrer and anonymize external links?

I could only find 1 but it hasn't been updated for 6 years...

 

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It can be done by jQuery and for that purpose, you have to install a plugin in your WordPress. Plugin Link In code just loop through all <a> and concatenate the URL. for concatenation referrer_link + orinal_link And for changing the link
 
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I don't think it's a problem these plug-ins have not been updated in 6 years: it's a method that doesn't really change. Looking at the code of both plug-ins, you can see that the one @medw1311 linked uses the javascript approach, whereas the plug-in linked by @jokerking uses a php function. Not sure which of these works better.

But, if you insist on a more recent plug-in: Wp-HideRefer was updated 2 years ago, but doesn't have a lot of installs and one user claims it doesn't work. It also uses php functions.
 
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I don't think it's a problem these plug-ins have not been updated in 6 years: it's a method that doesn't really change. Looking at the code of both plug-ins, you can see that the one @medw1311 linked uses the javascript approach, whereas the plug-in linked by @jokerking uses a php function. Not sure which of these works better.

But, if you insist on a more recent plug-in: Wp-HideRefer was updated 2 years ago, but doesn't have a lot of installs and one user claims it doesn't work. It also uses php functions.
Both the one you mentioned and the one @jokerking mentioned work for "hard coded" links but not for dynamically generated ones.
 

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Does anyone know of a wordpress plugin that will hide the referrer and anonymize external links?
I could only find 1 but it hasn't been updated for 6 years...
Try this one :

And in Setting > Advanced tab you can chose your anonymous link
In Links tab activate Base64 option :

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Try this one :

And in Setting > Advanced tab you can chose your anonymous link
In Links tab activate Base64 option :

screenshot-4.png
Thanks, that one looks interesting.

I'm testing a non plugin solution atm but if that doesn't work I'll check out that plugin.
 
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Try this one :

And in Setting > Advanced tab you can chose your anonymous link
In Links tab activate Base64 option :

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I was looking for this same idea as well.

So the plugin you point out seems to do the work by adding prefix to all external link, isnt it?

I am not a techie person. What does it mean when you say,: activate base64 option?
 

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I was looking for this same idea as well.

So the plugin you point out seems to do the work by adding prefix to all external link, isnt it?

I am not a techie person. What does it mean when you say,: activate base64 option?
Yes it adds the anonymizer service prefix to your external Urls

Base64 is an option on the Links Settings tab to encode your links (disguise them) in my case it's not needed.
 
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I was looking for this same idea as well.
So the plugin you point out seems to do the work by adding prefix to all external link, isnt it?
I am not a techie person. What does it mean when you say,: activate base64 option?
Oh sorry, i didn't saw your question, you will find base64 in the setting > Links "tab"
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Yes it adds the anonymizer service prefix to your external Urls

Base64 is an option on the Links Settings tab to encode your links (disguise them) in my case it's not needed.
Thanks for your information @medw1311

I now have another question, what is going to happen to the ads like adsense for this site with external link sanonimized? Will it be seen as not referred by the site the ads network?
 

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