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Remove autodetection for whether links need "noreferrer"
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Authored by epriestley on Feb 18 2018, 1:09 AM.
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Summary

Via HackerOne. See https://hackerone.com/reports/317243.

We're still detecting these wrong because browsers treat <a href=" /<newline><tab>\evil.com">click here</a> as a valid protocol-relative link to evil.com.

Just give up and add "noreferrer" at the application level at all callsites, like we do with target="_blank" already.

Test Plan

Added failing tests; ran unit tests. See also next change.

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