Support redirection to the destination, without tracking services as middleman

[Chinaski1]

@imTHAI commented on Tue Nov 30 2021

Hello,

I would like Adguard support the URL redirect with cleaning the tracking. Like ClearURLs add-on does.
Indeed both Adguard (with $removeparam I believe ?) and ClearURLs can clean tracking code after the URL
For example:

https://example.com?utm_source=newsletter1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sale
After the address is cleaned, it will look like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/exampleProduct

But clearURLs also cleans in case of redirection. That's the purpose of my request:
For example:
If I click on a link like this one:
https://dealabs.digidip.net/visit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.fr%2Fdp%2FB098K16RX5%3Fsmid%3DA1X6FK5RDHNB96&ppref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dealabs.com%2Fbons-plans%2Fasus-zenbook-um425qa-14-fhd-amd-ryzen-7-5800h-ram-16go-512-go-w10-azerty-2256311

With ClearURLs it will be cleaned to:
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B098K16RX5?smid=A1X6FK5RDHNB96

Another example:
http://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=12305754&effi_id=0k003mdl0mwv&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffr.shopping.rakuten.com%2Foffer%3Faction%3Ddesc%26aid%3D9027491774%26productid%3D6956351445

With ClearURLs it will be cleaned to:
https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer?action=desc&aid=9027491774&productid=6956351445

(with Safari/Adguard, it will give me an error page since track.effiliation.com is blocked by my AdguardHome dns server)

Some remarks:

• Here is the filter list of ClearURLs that I wish we could adapt into Adguard
• ClearURLS developers explained here that, other than the $99 for a Apple dev account, they wouldn't be able to port their extension to Safari for now, because of the lack of webRequestBlocking API.
  I imagine AdGuard could do that because it acts "outside" of Safari, doesn't it?
• Someone on Telegram says it would be possible to do the magic in AdGuard with something #%#AG_onload!function(){window.location.href but I means nothing to me :p
• I found something similar to my request here in the Adguard/Windows GitHub. But I'm not sure it's exactly the same.

Thank you,
Best regards,

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@Chinaski1 commented on Tue Nov 30 2021

Hello there!

As you correctly pointed out, you can use the $removeparam rule to remove tracking parameters.
We have also implemented a URL Tracking filter that can be used for this purpose.

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@imTHAI commented on Tue Nov 30 2021

Hello there!

As you correctly pointed out, you can use the $removeparam rule to remove tracking parameters. We have also implemented a URL Tracking filter that can be used for this purpose.

Hello,
I'm not sure I understand you answer. You agree $removeparam cannot achieve my purpose right ?

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@ameshkov commented on Tue Nov 30 2021

Ah, I got it.

Well, we were thinking about some sort of a $rewrite parameter, but the problem with it is that it can be rather dangerous. We might consider it for trusted filters, though.

@Chinaski1 probably should be moved to the CoreLibs repo.

[imTHAI]

Hello,

The uBlockOrigin developer said he will consider adding this capability after Adguard: uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues#1784

But it appears it does it now, but not automatically: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Strict-blocking#ability-to-parse-the-strict-blocked-url

[ameshkov]

Duplicates #1364, please upvote it if you need it.