Initially implemented in https://github.com/fossar/selfoss/issues/104, these were mostly meant to strip the Referer header. But we have long been specifying rel="noreferer" on links, which achieved the same effect without going through a questionable third-party website that usually messed up the viewed web page.
For better privacy, web browser extensions like NoScript or uBlock Origin and Tor or a VPN provider are probably much better anyway.
Initially implemented in https://github.com/fossar/selfoss/issues/104, these were mostly meant to strip the
Refererheader. But we have long been specifyingrel="noreferer"on links, which achieved the same effect without going through a questionable third-party website that usually messed up the viewed web page.For better privacy, web browser extensions like NoScript or uBlock Origin and Tor or a VPN provider are probably much better anyway.
Closes: https://github.com/fossar/selfoss/issues/612