Hide referrer on iframe Firefox

Question

I have a iframe where videos played when the user choose. Everything is on my website, but I want to hide the referrer to the user, so they don't know in what page the videos are. I'm trying with referrerpolicy="no-referrer", but in firefox doesn't work, in chrome works fine. Anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?

<iframe class="embed-responsive video" id="myvideo" src="" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" 
scrolling="no"></iframe>

`so they don't know in what page the videos are` - how can hiding the referrer help? — Jaromanda X, Aug 13 '22 at 11:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 13 '22 at 11:19

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It looks like what you are trying to do is valid, but there are several open bugs in firefox that prevent this from working as it should.

You may be able to fix this at the server level though, through the use of the referrer-policy header. Tweak your server config so that the videos are returned with this header set:

Referrer-Policy: no-referrer

answered Aug 13 '22 at 11:19

Buffoonism

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I am using nginx, I put add_header Referrer-Policy 'no-referrer'; but doesn't work – miel Aug 13 '22 at 11:48
If you open More Tools -> Web Developer Tools in firefox, then select the Network tab, and refresh, are the headers present on the video? – Buffoonism Aug 13 '22 at 12:19
yes, I can see with a extension – miel Aug 13 '22 at 12:35
I think the short answer is going to be "firefox is broken for the time being". – Buffoonism Aug 13 '22 at 13:03

Hide referrer on iframe Firefox

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