This issue occurs when the Referrer Policy in the org's Session Settings is set to No Referrer. This configuration prompts the browser to strip the referrer header from outgoing requests. Because Salesforce cannot retrieve the expected referrer URL, it triggers an internal error (NullPointerException) and prevents the dashboard components from loading.
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