[koito17]

The fact sites do evil things with these headers is why I configure Firefox with

  network.http.referer.XOriginTrimmingPolicy

set to 2. It "breaks" sites, but often in good ways (such as the site in TFA).

[mghackerlady]

Referrer links are a dumb idea. Why the hell do you want to know where I'm coming from other than to track me

[Nzen]

For targeting advertising expendatures at the site level. If most of my traffic, as revealed by referrer links, comes from social-media-platform-foo and only a little from social-media-platform-bar, then I am likely to spend more on ads from foo than from bar. I'll grant that it is a noisy measure, but doesn't need to be about tracking a particular individual.

[SilentM68]

Got same issue with Edge, but works with Firefox :)