Sean Oliver 273102323d feat(growth): filter OAuth/SSO redirect referrers from attribution (#44405)
## Problem

GitHub OAuth redirects and Google SSO set the browser's Referer header
to their domain when redirecting back to supabase.com. Our attribution
pipeline treats these as genuine referral traffic, inflating the
`github` channel by ~20K orgs/week. The internal referrer fix
(GROWTH-647) surfaced this by reducing `unknown-internal` — it didn't
cause the issue, it revealed OAuth noise that was previously hidden.

## What happened

When users sign in with GitHub, the browser sends `Referer:
https://github.com/`. GitHub's login pages use
`origin-when-cross-origin` Referrer-Policy, which strips the path. So
OAuth redirects arrive as bare `github.com/` — indistinguishable from a
direct visit to github.com. Meanwhile, genuine GitHub referrals from
repos/READMEs always include the full path because those pages use
`no-referrer-when-downgrade`.

We validated against `mart_marketing_organization_attribution`: 98.5% of
GitHub-attributed orgs have bare `github.com/` as the referrer. Only
~250/week have specific paths (genuine referrals).

## Changes

- Added `isOAuthRedirectReferrer()` to `first-referrer-cookie.ts` —
identifies auth provider redirects:
  - `accounts.google.com` blocked entirely (dedicated SSO subdomain)
  - Bare `github.com/` blocked (OAuth redirect signature)
- `github.com/<specific-path>` preserved (genuine repo/README referrals)
- Wired into `shouldRefreshCookie()` so OAuth referrers never get
stamped into cookies
- Wired into `handlePageTelemetry()` referrer overrides as
defense-in-depth
- 17 new tests covering all OAuth patterns and edge cases

## Testing

All 52 tests pass. New tests cover Google SSO (bare + with path), GitHub
bare domain (with/without trailing slash), genuine GitHub referrals
(repo, README, discussion, blob), explicit OAuth path, non-OAuth
domains, empty/malformed URLs. Verified TDD — tests failed red before
implementation, green after.

Companion dbt PR in data-engineering handles historical data.

GROWTH-732
2026-04-01 11:25:39 -07:00
2025-06-17 11:08:46 +02:00
2024-01-10 13:34:41 +01:00
2021-07-25 12:45:26 +08:00
2023-03-11 19:47:56 +01:00

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