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Comment by afandian

5 hours ago

I was replying to

> All the big products put an intermediary for that reason

Surely whoever maintains the big products can add headers if they want?

And this is about people who care enough about not showing up in Referer headers to do something about it rather than people in general not understanding the full spec .

The other problem is if you're too big like Google, you cannot assume everyone will honor this, which is why they do these redirects.

  • Referrer-Policy is a response header, so in this case it would be Google sending it, and the browsers who would be honouring it. You have to hope that the browser makers get it correct... Unless I misunderstood?