Comment by tomjen3
4 years ago
Certainly, I wouldn't want spammers to be able to insert links into my text. However, if there was an option in my browser to see who had linked to the content, sorted by some reasonable measure, such as page-rank, don't you think that would be a good thing for the web?
The HTML way for that is HTTP Referer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#:~:text=In%20HTTP...
Your server would need to log and report on those entries. Of course, for privacy and other reasons, this is probably not dependable any more.