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Ad block engine used in the Brave browser for ABP filter syntax based lists like EasyList.
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Treat wildcard and separator wildcards differently (* and ^) #150

Closed bbondy closed 5 years ago

bbondy commented 5 years ago

Currently we treat both * and ^ the same. I believe this is what uBlock does.

But we recently discovered there are rules on the Japanese list that don't work properly because we don't follow ABP rules.

Let's follow ABP rules instead as per: https://adblockplus.org/filters#separators