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i@ars:~$ getfattr -d logo.png 
# file: logo.png
user.xdg.origin.url="https://habr.com/images/logo.png"
user.xdg.referrer.url="https://habr.com/images/logo.png"
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iMac-Igor:~ [censored]$ xattr -l habr_logo.png 
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms:
00000000  62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 A2 01 02 5F 10 20 68 74  |bplist00..._. ht|
00000010  74 70 73 3A 2F 2F 68 61 62 72 2E 63 6F 6D 2F 69  |tps://habr.com/i|
00000020  6D 61 67 65 73 2F 6C 6F 67 6F 2E 70 6E 67 5F 10  |mages/logo.png_.|
00000030  20 68 74 74 70 73 3A 2F 2F 68 61 62 72 2E 63 6F  | https://habr.co|
00000040  6D 2F 69 6D 61 67 65 73 2F 6C 6F 67 6F 2E 70 6E  |m/images/logo.pn|
00000050  67 08 0B 2E 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00  |g...............|
00000060  00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000070  00 00 00 51                                      |...Q|
00000074
com.apple.quarantine: 0001;5c8a21e7;Google Chrome;26D6C537-E6B0-4715-9E77-656FF1C5B7A9
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setfattr -hx user.xdg.origin.url _
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xattr -c -r ~/Downloads
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get-childitem «D:\Downloads\» | unblock-file
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* Changes in Wget 1.20.1
** --xattr is no longer default since it introduces privacy issues.
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UPDATE 2
Chromium Linux user.xdg.origin.url user.xdg.referrer.url xattrs .
chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1407441