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Thank you for this, because I think I'm about to learn from you, but I'm confused. How can you control them? Is there some way for a site to signal to a browser

Thank you for this, because I think I'm about to learn from you, but I'm confused. How can you control them? Is there some way for a site to signal to a browser whether it should or send referrer headers and under what circumstances?

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Smerity 11y ago
The site can signal, either via server headers or meta tags, whether to send or withhold referrers. Adding <meta name="referrer" content="never"> will prevent referrers from being sent, whilst <meta name="referrer" content="always"> will ensure they're sent whether linking to HTTP or HTTPS. The user can of course override these if so desired - see the extensions linked to by many other commenters.