The homepage hero was a CSS background-image, the one image on the site that couldn't
carry referrerpolicy — so a remote hero leaked the referrer to the publisher CDN while
article cards + share pages suppressed it. Replace with a real <img referrerpolicy=
"no-referrer">; the retry probe now sets probe.referrerPolicy='no-referrer' too. object-fit
cover/contain replaces background-size (contain keeps the matted framed-plate look via
padding), fixed 5/4 footprint, fade-in and typographic fallback preserved; img onerror
falls back to the typo cover post-reveal. (Suppresses the referrer, not the IP — zero
third-party requests still requires policy 'none' or local caching.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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