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Strip referer to strict-origin-when-cross-origin in all cases #13464

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This is a follow up to #13434 (which is no longer needed)

Brave currently completely strips the referrer on all cross origin top-frame navigations. This causes Brave to look like bots / fraud for some non-malicious systems (e.g., DDG and similar).

We should change Brave's referrer policy to cap at (i.e. send less when the page requests less, but cap and default to strict-origin-when-cross-origin)

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