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How does Brave determine what is a necessary query parameter and what is not?
by pphysch 4y ago
How does Brave determine what is a necessary query parameter and what is not?
- poisonborz 4y agoSpeculation: they have a list of popular sites & tracking tags
- paulsmith 4y agoI've always thought those ?v= after YouTube links and ?id= after HN articles looked sus ...
- dymk 4y agoIt's how YouTube tracks what videos I watch and how HN tracks what comments I've read! Dastardly clever of them...
- lmkg 4y agoIndeed, a few clicks from the article arrives at the specific list: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/browser/net/brave_query_filter.cc#L21 https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/browser/net/...
- joe5150 4y agoTheir filters are open source. https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/browser/net/brave_query_filter.cc#L21 https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/browser/net/...
- pphysch 4y agoThanks! Seems unlikely to hit any false positives.
- jay_kyburz 4y agoAlso trivial to bypass if a developer could care less.
- zamnos 4y agoeven just manually putting fbclid on the list would go a long way to assuaging the paranoid