"Legitimate URL Shortener" General · DandelionSprout/adfilt · Discussion #163 (original) (raw)

This is now the place to share new parameters that you want to see be filtered by "➗ Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool" and by "⚙️ Dandelion Sprout's Annoyances List".

There is currently no set time for when new reports are looked into, due to e.g. vacations, other computer work, and hobbies, but it's currently less than 2 weeks.

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Important notes:

• Legitimate URL Shortener can not bypass tracker redirects
• Legitimate URL Shortener can not remove anything after the # in urls
• Legitimate URL Shortener can only remove query parameters (only what is after the ? in URLs)
• Legitimate URL Shortner can not clean URLs on the Chrome Web Store, Microsoft Edge Add-ons website, and Mozilla Addons Store, as their respective browsers by default do not permit extensions to access and modify these pages (see "Legitimate URL Shortener" General #163 (comment))
• ClearURLs for uBo is no longer supported.

For example, for the url https://example.com/content/badtracker/?utm_source=secret&tracker=true#utm_source=othersecret, Legitimate URL Shortener could shorten it down to https://example.com/content/badtracker/#utm_source=othersecret. However, Legitimate URL Shortener can not clean https://example.com/content/ref=somewhere because /ref=somewhere is not a query parameter. For more information, read the documentation on removeparam.

• Please make sure that Legit URL is installed and up-to-date, and your content/ad blocker is enabled on the affected website before reporting an issue
• ClearURLs for uBo is known to have broad allowlisting rules which can completely nullify Legitimate URL Shortener (i.e. preventing removal of ?ref=thing from Amazon). Please test with it disabled before reporting unblocked parameters.
• Parameters added without reloading the page (such as on Bilibili or Netflix) can not be removed as uBlock Origin/AdGuard never sees them added & thus can not remove them. At best, we can prevent the page from using this trick, but in many cases that is not possible without causing breakage.
  To quote the uBo documentation (added emphasis):

To remove query parameters from the URL of network requests [...]
Cosmetically added params cannot be removed via removeparam

This method does not result in a new network request.

Additional rules:

• Added 11th of July 2024: If a hidden, secret, private or offline source for entries is hinted to, talked about or linked to, you agree to that we will have dirt on you. Publicly available sources are not affected by this.