[SOLVED] Brave Blocking Same-Origin Script as Cross-Site Tracker

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ISSUE
Brave is blocking one of my website’s JavaScript files loaded from the same domain/origin.
It is incorrectly flagging one file in particular as a “Cross-site Tracker”.

DETAILS
I have several JavaScript files loaded on my website.
The file paths are all in the format:
<domain>.com/assets/ko/<file-name>-<digest-token>.js
‘digest-token’ is a long alphanumeric string.

The file that is getting blocked is named:
survey-invite-builder-<digest-token>.js

For some reason, Brave thinks this a cross-site tracker. The file is simply a JavaScript object that uses Knockout.js to do some fancy UI work. There is nothing being tracked at all. No cookies. No session- or local-storage.

If I rename the file to say, something-else-<digest-token>.js, Brave loads it just fine.

My guess is that Brave is interpreting the file name and suspecting it’s a tracker.
Any ideas on how to resolve this without renaming the file?

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@RealHuman,
Thank you for reaching out to us.
I’m going to cc @fanboynz – one of our Ad block engineers to see if there’s a work around for this. This particular issue (Shields blocking something on a user’s website/page as a tracker when it’s not) comes up more frequently that I would imagine it does.

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Hey @RealHuman is there a sample site to test?

Also copy/paste the site-trackers being blocked will help

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@fanboynz let me set up a demo. Currently this is happening on a client’s site behind a login wall so I can’t give access to it.

In the meantime, is the algorithm doing anything with the file name? Because that seems to be the issue.

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We use Easylist, Easyprivacy, Ubo, Disconnect lists. So it could be any number of lists affecting it

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@fanboynz here’s a demo: [REMOVED}
You’ll see the file named “survey_invite_builder” is getting rejected as cross-site tracker.

I took a look at Easyprivacy and looks like they have an entry for “/survey_invite_”:


I wonder if that’s catching it?

I would expect with same-origin this wouldn’t be an issue.

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Okay filter removed. update should be seen in the next 24-48hrs.

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Thank you :grinning:

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