youtube.com: URL tracking

[MasterKia]

Prerequisites

• [X] This site DOES NOT contains sexually explicit material, otherwise use NSFW-specific form;
• [X] Filters were updated before reproducing an issue;
• [X] AdGuard product version is up-to-date;
• [X] Browser version is up-to-date;
• [X] If the site or app is broken, disabling AdGuard protection resolves an issue.

What product do you use?

Other ad blocker

AdGuard version

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What type of problem have you encountered?

Missed analytics or tracker

Which browser(s) do you use?

Firefox

Which device do you use?

Desktop

Where is the problem encountered?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAZWv8QQ8Co

What filters do you have enabled?

AdGuard URL Tracking filter

What Stealth Mode options do you have enabled?

No response

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YouTube's description links have tracking parameters.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAZWv8QQ8Co

In the description: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=[...]&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.me%2Fpaysyfr&v=pAZWv8QQ8Co

event, redir_token, q being the destination link and v being the video id.

Proposed filters for AdGuard URL Tracking Protection:

||youtube.com/redirect?$removeparam=event
||youtube.com/redirect?$removeparam=redir_token
||youtube.com/redirect?$removeparam=v

Result link: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.me%2Fpaysyfr

Privacy

• [X] I agree to follow this condition

[krystian3w]

Maybe good for only My Filters Tab or User Rules (.../pages/options.html#user-filter) tab/Filter (apps may have list named as Filter - similar to legacy interface of ABP) due links will always ask to confirm redirect.

[MasterKia]

links will always ask to confirm redirect.

It's better than YouTube tracking which external links the user has clicked on (v parameter for video id).

[krystian3w]

Worse if every day people start complaining and "you" have to paste them a link to the solution:

• disable Filter "URL tracking" or
• add this to AdGuard's own rules / my filters in uBO:

  ||youtube.com/redirect?$removeparam=event,badfilter
  ||youtube.com/redirect?$removeparam=redir_token,badfilter
  ||youtube.com/redirect?$removeparam=v,badfilter

These clicker can be used in scams:

[path="/redirect?q="]www.youtube.com#%#//scriptlet('trusted-click-element', '#invalid-token-redirect-goto-site-button', '', '500')

[MasterKia]

[path="/redirect?q="]www.youtube.com#%#//scriptlet('trusted-click-element', '#invalid-token-redirect-goto-site-button', '', '500')

Trusted filters are only controlled by the AdGuard team or My filters or user trusted filterlists.

[krystian3w]

But for a while the link will be automatically clicked in someone.

Maintaining in regex a list of domains where clicking looks OK may not be possible (especially when the line exceeds the limit of allowed characters per filter rule e.g. 65 kilibytes).

[AdamWr]

I'm not sure if these rules should be added as it causes that there is necessary to confirm redirection. There was issue about confirming redirection (caused by $cookie rule) here - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/128041#issuecomment-1229174825 and related comment - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/128041#issuecomment-1237773494 (and comments below). So I guess that it's not user friendly and there will be similar reports.

@Alex-302 Could you please take a look at this issue when you come back from vacation?

[Alex-302]

I'm not sure if these rules should be added as it causes that there is necessary to confirm redirection.

This is annoying behavior. The rule is for user filter only.

[MasterKia]

So AdGuard doesn't block any click-tracker links too just in case some users get upset? So much for "AdGuard Tracking protection" list.

[Alex-302]

You will be tracked by Google in any case.