Brave-browser: Merriam-Webster Resources Blocked

Created on 9 Apr 2019 · 3Comments · Source: brave/brave-browser

Description

First-party resources are blocked on www.merriam-webster.com in some builds of Brave.

Steps to Reproduce

Navigate to www.merriam-webster.com

Actual result:

The following resources are being blocked:

Expected result:

First-party content (particularly images) should not be blocked.

Reproduces how often:

Always.

Brave version (brave://version info)

0.63.34

Reproducible on current release:

The issue does not reproduce on 0.62.51, but does reproduce on 0.63.34.

Website problems only:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? Yes
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? No.

Additional Information

Originally reported on Twitter:

featurshields featurshieldadblock featurshieldwebcompat prioritP3 workarounshields-down

Source

jonathansampson

👍2

Most helpful comment

Fixed here:
https://github.com/brave/ad-block/commit/03c18b34f071919bf28725f084bf13dd2105ab4b

Turns out to be a parsing bug only, and we don't parse from our clients (we only deserialize), so I was able to fix it by just re-generating the lists. If you don't see it working, just restart your browser and that should force an update check for the new serialized list.

bbondy on 11 May 2019

👍5

All 3 comments

For comparison, here is the output when viewing the same resource in Chrome with uBlock Origin 1.18.16:

| | | | | | | |
|:--- |:--- |:--- |:--- |:--- |:--- |:--- |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | image | https://www.merriam-webster.com/favicon.png |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | image | https://www.merriam-webster.com/favicon.png |
| +0 | ##.abl | | www.merriam-webster.com | | dom | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuance |
| +0 | \|\|stats.merriam-webster.com^ | -- | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://stats.merriam-webster.com/tally.php?word=nuance&t=1554791010 |
| +0 | /stats/lookup? | -- | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/lapi/v1/mwol-search/stats/lookup?rp=dictionary&usp=nuance&r=&ua=Mozilla%2F5.0%20(Windows%20NT%2010.0%3B%20Win64%3B%20x64)%20AppleWebKit%2F537.36%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%20Chrome%2F73.0.3683.86%20Safari%2F537.36 |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/show-less.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/show-more.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/social-icons/double-arrows.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/social-icons/time-traveler.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/social-icons/twitter.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/social-icons/facebook.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/show-less.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/show-more.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/show-less.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/show-more.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | xhr | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.svg |
| +0 | \|\|stats.merriam-webster.com^ | -- | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | script | https://stats.merriam-webster.com/pop-score-redesign.php?id=popularity-score&word=nuance&t=1554794302783&_=1554794302685 |
| +0 | google-analytics.com/analytics.js | << | www.merriam-webster.com | | script | https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js |
| +0 | \|\|google-analytics.com^ | -- | www.merriam-webster.com | 3 | script | https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | inline-script | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuance |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 3 | script | https://geolocation.onetrust.com/cookieconsentpub/v1/geo/countries/EU?callback=jQuery3310289762724952076_1554794302683&_=1554794302684 |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 3 | css | https://cdn.cookielaw.org/skins/4.4.0/default_flat_bottom_two_button_black/v2/css/optanon.css |
| +0 | \|\|heapanalytics.com^ | -- | www.merriam-webster.com | 3 | script | https://cdn.heapanalytics.com/js/heap-537798487.js |
| +0 | \|\|amazon-adsystem.com^ | -- | www.merriam-webster.com | 3 | script | https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | image | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/social-icons/double-arrows.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | image | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/social-icons/time-traveler.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | image | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/social-icons/twitter.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | image | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/social-icons/facebook.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | image | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/show-less.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | image | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/show-more.svg |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | image | https://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.svg |
| +0 | ##+js(abort-on-property-write.js, adonisHash) | | www.merriam-webster.com | | dom | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuance |
| +0 | googletagservices.com/gpt.js | << | www.merriam-webster.com | | script | https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js |
| +0 | \|\|googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js$script | -- | www.merriam-webster.com | 3 | script | https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js |
| +0 | \|\|indexww.com^ | -- | www.merriam-webster.com | 3 | script | https://js-sec.indexww.com/ht/htw-merriam-webster.js |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | css | https://www.merriam-webster.com/assets/mw/app-bundles/mw-2019-04-08.11-29-23.000000-app-bundle/css/style-dsp-redesign-definitions.min.css |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | css | https://www.merriam-webster.com/assets/mw/app-bundles/mw-2019-04-08.11-29-23.000000-app-bundle/css/style-dsp-redesign-definitions-defer.min.css |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 3 | css | https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:300,400,700\|Open+Sans:300,300i,400,400i,600,700,700i\|Playfair+Display:400,700,700i |
| +0 | \|\|merriam-webster.com^$csp=script-src 'self' * 'unsafe-inline' | -- | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | csp | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuance |
| +0 | | | www.merriam-webster.com | 1 | doc | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuance |