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So should Protonmail (and any other site with similarly sensitive data) be setting that header, then? It’s probably hard to change the default. I bet some use cases (SSO popups?) depend on it.

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It's not unreasonable to set a different header value for the login page only, where it should be safe because no external user data is being rendered.

Sites can also opt into the same behavior by setting the rel="noopener" or alternatively target="_blank" attributes on outgoing links (i.e. <a> tags).

And yes, something like a webmail site should definitely be setting the header, or at lest these attributes for outbound content links.

That is a little different, though: those attributes are for if you're example.com linking to protonmail, the header is for if you're protonmail deciding on security policies for interactions with example.com.

The header works in both directions; cf. the table on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Cr....

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