You still get the testicles if you click this link, at least using Chrome you do. It's because the referrer field is set to HN so they know where the traffic is coming from.

In Firefox set network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy and network.http.referer.XOriginTrimmingPolicy.

Source: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

I'm using Chrome with uMatrix and uBlock Origin... I assume one of those blocks the data because, somehow strangely, I feel left out that all I'm getting is the websites.

I wonder why someone would setup a "bad result" for specific referrers ...

All good with Brave as far as I can tell. I don't know what everyone is talking about with testicles, but I don't see any with Brave.

In Firefox, right-click and open in a new private window and the links will work.

Just tested in Chrome and it works there as well.

In mobile Safari tap and hold, then tap the preview or the open button

Time to switch to Firefox and give Google less data. Firefox doesn't seem to send the referrer :)

Hmmm. I think somebody is following this thread because I got testies using ff on linux by clicking the bitly links above.

haha, same. jwz really wants us to see the testes!

Brave does not send the referrer as well.

Yes it does. I use brave and I get testicles if I click the link.

I've tested it multiple times, as have others. Perhaps you are running an ancient version?

https://brave.com/privacy-updates-5/

edit: see also: https://www.cookiestatus.com/brave/#referrer

Can confirm on android, Linux and windows

just tried it in chrome, i got only one testicle

Does anyone know how to make this right? Would simply removing the mate-screen-saver package work?

haha, yeah. I don't like using URL shorteners either there is just a balance to be made between them tracking you and getting redirected to testicles.

Can't count on everyone having referrer turned off