Have you seen the new Facebook phishing protection? It’s an amicable effort to prevent the sorts of phishing attacks that I believe forced many MySpace users to switch to Facebook.

They’re doing all they can to make sure users don’t fall foul to this sneaky practice. Recently, any outbound links from the website are being re-directed via a ‘You’re leaving Facebook’ page. Here’s an example.

Problem is, anyone who uses their webstat applications (I use StatCounter) to track how people are finding their site — very important for all webmasters, not just bloggers — they’ll only get the ‘leaving’ page as their referrer data.

A few seconds before 4 o’clock someone came to this post via a link on Facebook. But when I look back to see where they’ve come from, all I get is this:

So I’m none the wiser. It could just be someone clicking via my profile, which happens from time to time, but quite often I’ve had entries linked to via groups about journalism, students or whatever. I’d quite like to know where my blog is being talked about and, if relevant, get involved in the chat.

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