New debouncing rule type for y2u.be-like bounce trackers #18756
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OS/Android
Fixes related to Android browser functionality
OS/Desktop
privacy/debounce
URL debouncer
privacy/tracking
Preventing sites from tracking users across the web
privacy
privacy-pod
Feature work for the Privacy & Web Compatibility pod
Zach Edwards discovered a new bounce tracker used in Youtube links: http://y2u.be (note the insecure HTTP scheme)
It works like this:
http://y2ube.com/dQw4w9WgXcQ => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
These kinds of replacements cannot currently be expressed in our current debouncing list. We'd need a new rule type which extracts a parameter from an existing URL and prepends a hostname to it.
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