Managing referes in Chrome and Firefox: Compatibility vs privacy?

The issue is if you send referers, you can't remain private.

If you do not send referes however, a growing number of websites' features broke.

How to solve the paradox?

Exact settings, plugins for these two major browsers?

 

I typically forge referrer as the website's root page. I rarely have a problem doing that. Maybe it's hard for websites to get around. But even if they did, I could just start at their root page.

 

For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referrer-control/
For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hnkcfpcejkafcihlgbojoidoihckciin
I didn't notice any problems when I was using it.

 

I still like RefControl. It's been three years since the last update, but it works, so hey

 

Sure, there are these great tools but the question is what rules do you give them to operate by?

Maybe I did not fully get this.

 

Rules? I don't give them any rules. They just disable (remove) referer or send a fake one. It's up to you and your preferences...

 

For example, the referrer sent for accessing https://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS would be https://www.wikileaks.org/.

 

For Firefox: RefControl with default rule of "Block - send no referrer" and "3rd Party requests only" ticked.