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To your first point: that is partly wrong. You can't tell a browser from a forum software's point of view not to give a referrer to the link target. But you can rewrite the referrer by directing links through a de-referrer. That is - in the simplest way - a quite neutral looking web page.

You can apply it globally, that is right. vb does it only in private forums. I think that this is done while loading the articles from the database (as it changes while moving articles). The links in the article are rewritten as they are displayed, I think.

Instead of [plain]www.target.com[/plain] they say [plain]www.myforum.com/dereferrer/www.target.com[/plain]. So the target server only sees [plain]www.myforum.com/dereferrer/www.target.com[/plain] in the logs.

Doing this globally is a to hard way as normally a referrer is an important information and it belongs to the internet as it works. But in some circumstances referrers can be a danger. And this is why I am posting this.