antonok-edm
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1 year ago It's hard to tell from a particular filter whether the site is "just a bounce tracker" or actively serving malicious content. uBlock Origin avoids assigning a reason for the blocking. I believe Brave's blocked page interstitial was designed specifically to help less technical users understand the situation, with bounce trackers in mind, since the primary way most users would see it is by clicking on a link from an online email client.
If somebody follows a link to a malicious site and sees a warning that it might track them, they may underestimate the severity and still download malware unknowingly.
It's a good point and we should probably review the text on that page - perhaps even adding some heuristics depending on where the link was clicked from.
As stated in https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust/issues/258#issuecomment-1413443457 there are other posibility than tracking, in particular malicious sites is a very likely reason it's triggered.