Add Google's new iOS URL parameters to the query string filter #18758
Labels
OS/Android
Fixes related to Android browser functionality
OS/Desktop
priority/P4
Planned work. We expect to get to it "soon".
privacy/query-filter
privacy
QA Pass - Android ARM
QA Pass-macOS
QA/Yes
release-notes/include
Milestone
Google has announced two new URL parameters for iOS 14:
gbraid
for deep linking into apps, andwbraid
for web links originating from an app. They claim that these new parameters comply with Apple's new privacy guidelines and that they therefore do not require asking for permission via the App Tracking Transparency.Since these parameters replace the Google Click Identifier (
gclid
) which we block and which is against Apple's tracking rules, we should consider blocking these new parameters.According to Google,
wbraid
uses:Campaign-level parameters are out-of-scope for the Brave query filter, but until more details about their aggregation and de-identification schemes are published, it may be safer to strip these out.
Some examples in the wild:
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