Improve support for removeparam
in standard mode
#35141
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feature/shields/adblock
Blocking ads & trackers with Shields
OS/Android
Fixes related to Android browser functionality
OS/Desktop
QA Pass - Android ARM
QA Pass-macOS
QA/Yes
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Besides being used as privacy-harming tracking vectors (covered by Brave's own filter since 2019), query string parameters are also removed for other reasons in custom rule sets, and are involved in certain kinds of ads.
At the moment, support for
removeparam
rules in adblock lists is gated on users being in aggressive mode which means that:removeparam
rules added by users (directly inbrave://settings/shields/filters
or via a custom list) will be silently ignored unless the user also opts into aggressive modePerhaps we can fix both of these limitations by adding a new metadata field to https://github.com/brave/adblock-resources/blob/master/filter_lists/list_catalog.json and gating
removeparam
on that instead.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: