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OS/AndroidFixes related to Android browser functionalityFixes related to Android browser functionalityOS/DesktopQA Pass - Android ARMQA Pass - Android TabQA Pass-LinuxQA Pass-Win64QA Pass-macOSQA/Yesfeature/shieldsThe overall Shields feature in Brave.The overall Shields feature in Brave.feature/shields/referrerrelease-notes/includerelease/blockingwebcompat/shieldsShields is breaking a website.Shields is breaking a website.
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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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OS/AndroidFixes related to Android browser functionalityFixes related to Android browser functionalityOS/DesktopQA Pass - Android ARMQA Pass - Android TabQA Pass-LinuxQA Pass-Win64QA Pass-macOSQA/Yesfeature/shieldsThe overall Shields feature in Brave.The overall Shields feature in Brave.feature/shields/referrerrelease-notes/includerelease/blockingwebcompat/shieldsShields is breaking a website.Shields is breaking a website.