I'm not a fan of Google or Chrome either, but this article was amazing, and the Chromium devs in this thread have provided some really neat info. Offtopic flami

I'm not a fan of Google or Chrome either, but this article was amazing, and the Chromium devs in this thread have provided some really neat info. Offtopic flaming isn't useful to HN. (And as to your bug, I tried --no-referrers in Chrome 45 on Windows 8 and it worked fine.)