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any chance that a few CORS implementations will break due to this ?

No.... ? Not as far as I could gather. Why would CORS break because of this change? AFAIK, CORS has nothing with the referrer header.

he's probably talking about referrer checks which are used as a mitigation against csrf

It only trims path and query information so it should be fine unless the site is overzealous and checks those.