Block sending Referrer information
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Description
to improve user privacy (like the other Things webrtc, Hyperlink, csp...)
for Firefox (about:config)
Normal Modus: network.http.referer.defaultPolicy (Standard = 3)
Private Modus: network.http.referer.defaultPolicy.pbmode (Standard = 2)
From version 53 onwards, Gecko has a pref available in about:config to allow users to set their default Referrer-Policy— network.http.referer.userControlPolicy.
From version 59 onwards (See #587523), this has been replaced by network.http.referer.defaultPolicy and network.http.referer.defaultPolicy.pbmode.
-> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy
Chrome etc i dont know.
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