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Home > Network/Internet > Firefox 87 protecting user privacy with new default Referrer Policy

Firefox 87 protecting user privacy with new default Referrer Policy

The Firefox team announced that Firefox 87 will introduce a stricter, more privacy-preserving default Referrer Policy.

Erdem Yasar by Erdem Yasar
March 23, 2021
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Firefox 87 will trim HTTP referrers by default. Firefox is a popular web browser. With the new Referrer Policy, Firefox will trim path and query string information from referrer headers. It will prevent websites to accidentally leak user data.

Referrer headers and Referrer Policy

Referrer information is mostly used for analytics, logging, or for optimizing caching. However, HTTP Referrer can also contain private user data and it can even reveal information on a user’s account on a website. If a website does not set any kind of referrer policy, then web browsers have traditionally defaulted to using a policy of ‘no-referrer-when-downgrade’.

Firefox 87 protecting user privacy with new default Referrer Policy

This policy trims the referrer while navigating to a less secure destination but otherwise sends the full URL including path, and query information as the referrer. Firefox stated that this policy is a “relic of the past web” and causes leaking information in HTTP requests.

Starting with Firefox 87, the default Referrer Policy is changed to ‘strict-origin-when-cross-origin’ which will trim user-sensitive information. The new policy also trims path and query information for all cross-origin requests. The new default Policy will be applied to all navigational requests, redirected requests, and subresource.

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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