That's correct. Google uses Referrer-Policy [1] to prevent the full referrer from being sent to the destination website. The transition page is purely for tra

That's correct. Google uses Referrer-Policy [1] to prevent the full referrer from being sent to the destination website. The transition page is purely for tracking. The ping attribute [2] is meant to replace that transition page eventually, but it needs to be ubiquitous and equivalent in terms of features before Google switches to that method. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#attr-ping https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#...