V1.41.99 bombs every time a Wikipedia sidebar link is clicked in DuckDuckGo

Description of the issue:
Starting today ( v1.41.99 update), Brave bombs every single time when clicking a sidebar link to Wikipedia in DuckDuckGo search results.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Brave v1.41.99 w/ default search set to DuckDuckGo
  2. Search for anything that will have a Wikipedia page
  3. In the DDG search results, there will be a sidebar showing the first part of a Wikipedia article, with “Wikipedia” in bold at the bottom of the preview paragraph
  4. Click that link
    RESULT: Brave bombs
  5. Repeat above, but in Step 4, CMD+click to open link in a new tag
    RESULT: Everything’s fine.

Brave Version( check About Brave):
v1.41.99

Additional Information:
macOS 12.4
2020 M1 MacBook Air

Disable brave://flags/#brave-debounce and restart. (A fix is getting rolled out soon)

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