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by jsheard 155 days ago
Browsers have clamped down on that somewhat by enforcing stricter referrer policies by default if the originating server doesn't specify one. It used to be a total free for all where everyone could always see the full referring URL, then it was changed to completely blank the referrer on secure-to-insecure transitions, then it was changed again to also blank the path on cross-origin transitions so only the referring origin is revealed.