Web document preview privacy and security protection

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, by a web browser executing on a computing device, a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) including access token data and referencing a web page document, the web page document including one or more links to web page content;
• loading, by the web browser, the web page document using the first URL and the access token data;
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• loading, by the web browser, the web page content referenced by the one or more links in the web page document using a request message having, encoded in a referrer field, a second URL that does not include the access token data.

A non-transient computer program product having instructions encoded thereon that when executed by one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to perform a process comprising:

• loading a web page document referenced by a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the first URL including access token data, the web page document including one or more links to web page content;
• changing, prior to loading the web page content referenced by the one or more links in the web page document, a current page URL of a web browser from the first URL to a second URL that does not include the access token data;
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• changing, subsequent to loading the web page content referenced by the one or more links in the web page document, the current page URL of the web browser from the second URL back to the first URL.