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There are many reasons why you may want to spoof your referral website, privacy is the obvious one. Websites usually log how you got there, either by search engine or clicking on a link, if the latter they will also log what website you were visiting before you went to them.

Spoof your referral page

There are also some websites that will only make their content available to those being referred from certain place, the Wall Street Journal for example wants you to pay in order to read their articles, but they have an agreement with digg and Google News. If you search for a Wall Street Journal in Google news and you follow the link  through them you will be able to access the complete article for free, but there is even an easier way to read the Wall Street Journal online for free, you will need to fake your referral website as digg.com, you can do this easily with a Firefox extension called RefSpoof.

After installing the Refspoof addon visit WSJ.com. Then, in the “spoof” field of the Refspoof toolbar type digg.com. Then, click on the “R” icon to the right and select “static referrer”. That is all, you can now read all of the Wall Street Journal for free.

UPDATE: As of 1st December 2009 the trick above seems to have stopped working, therefore here goes another way for you to read the Wall Street Journal online for free:

1) Copy the headline of the Wall Street Journal article you want to read.

2) Visit http://news.google.com and paste the headline on the search box.

3) Clink on the link leading to the Wall Street Journal article. That is it, now you will be able to read the full article for free, the WSJ journal has an agreement with Google News to let people referred by them read the full article.

Wall Street Journal Newspaper