From: Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 17:50:19 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Stop sending the Referer header.  https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/1161
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.stoutner.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94c46e53db9f5f3a3059cb073ae32d4da63087a1;p=PrivacyBrowserPC.git

Stop sending the Referer header.  https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/1161
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diff --git a/src/interceptors/UrlRequestInterceptor.cpp b/src/interceptors/UrlRequestInterceptor.cpp
index b0b4029..685b126 100644
--- a/src/interceptors/UrlRequestInterceptor.cpp
+++ b/src/interceptors/UrlRequestInterceptor.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-2025 Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com>
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-2026 Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com>
  *
  * This file is part of Privacy Browser PC <https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-pc/>.
  *
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ void UrlRequestInterceptor::interceptRequest(QWebEngineUrlRequestInfo &urlReques
     if (urlRequestInfo.resourceType() == QWebEngineUrlRequestInfo::ResourceTypeMainFrame)
         Q_EMIT newMainFrameResource();
 
+    // Remove the referer header.
+    urlRequestInfo.setHttpHeader("Referer", "");
+
     // Create a requests struct.
     RequestStruct *requestStructPointer = new RequestStruct;