And if you haven't read jwz's classic, you are in for a treat (text formatting, possible HN custom diatribe aside)
http://www.dereferer.org/?https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ejwz%2Eorg%2Fbl...
Do browsers today not allow users to set the referrer?
Google and countless web businesses prefix urls and act as "dereferers" so they can collect referers instead of the target websites. There is no shortage of "derefered" links on the www.
A "dereferer" may be useful for a website owner, but is it useful to a user? The "defererer" can track the external sites its users visit, creating a log of users' www browsing, but how does that benefit the user?
For the user, this is sharing far more information with the "dereferer" than with any individual target site.
Is the "Referer" header truly necessary for the user? It is not even spelled correctly.
I have been using the www with target url set as referer instead of referring url for decades with almost zero problems.
The times when a site demands a certain referer are so few and far between that I cannot remember the last time it happened.
about:config network.http.referer.spoofSource
You might get an image of a testicle in an egg cup along with a caption claiming we're all money obsessed man children.
Of course he made his millions in the first dot so he's a bit of a hypocrite...