What is the most reliable way to hide / spoof the referrer in JavaScript?

Question

Normally, the referrer is traceable through:

• JavaScript\'s document.referrer
• The request headers, e.g. PHP\'s $_SERVER[\'HTTP_REFER

Answer 1

As requested, by using JavaScript:

var meta = document.createElement('meta');
meta.name = "referrer";
meta.content = "no-referrer";
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(meta);

This will add the following meta tag to head section of the web page:

As of 2015 this is how you prevent sending the Referer header.