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Support noreferrer attribute for window.open()

Category

Security

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 75)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

Allows a web page to use window.open() without leaking referrer information by leaving the referrer header out of page navigations.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/window-object.html#apis-for-creating-and-navigating-browsing-contexts-by-name
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=931207

Explainers: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/4331

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