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rel="noreferrer" HTML attribute value

The noreferrer keyword for the rel attribute of the <a>, <area>, and <form> elements instructs the browser, when fetching the target resource, to omit the Referer header and otherwise leak no referrer information — and additionally to behave as if the noopener keyword were also specified.

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Specification
HTML
# link-type-noreferrer

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html.elements.a.rel.noreferrer

html.elements.area.rel.noreferrer

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