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“From now on, by default, Firefox will trim path and query string information from referrer headers to prevent sites from accidentally leaking sensitive user data.”

Dimi Lee and Christoph Kerschbaumerblog.mozilla.org ↗

For decades every browser sent the full URL you came from with nearly every request, including images and scripts. That URL can name the article you read or your account details. Sites could have fixed it themselves since 2016 and most didn’t. So the browser now does it for them.