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Re:Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site? by mirimir on Sunday August 26, 2018 @10:58PM (#17849182)
Very nice! Tells me to add "<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer">" which I didn't think of, because I don't link to external resources.
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Re:Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site? by tananaev on Monday August 27, 2018 @01:19AM (#17849588)
I have added `Referrer-Policy` header to my nginx configuration instead. What is better meta tag or header and why?
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Re:Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site? by chrismorgan on Monday August 27, 2018 @02:39AM (#17849807)
<meta name=referrer> is the older of the two, and has IE/Edge support if you use one of the values never, always, origin and default, while the Referrer-Policy header is still in development for Edge.

Using the header form will be more efficient on HTTP/2 due to HPACK reducing it to roughly one byte.

Using the meta tag is typically easier to deploy.

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