Wait for clearURLs rewrite/how to address clearURLs' shortcoming?

[JaneJeon]

Some of the rule semantics might change... or we might have to abandon tracker stripping entirely

[JaneJeon]

ClearURLs/Addon#144

[JaneJeon]

An alternative method I'm thinking of is only using clearURLs for websites that won't automatically redirect you to the destination (e.g. youtube links, skimlinks, etc) - i.e. rawRules.

For "stripping" everything else, I think relying on existing UBO rulesets like https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets and https://github.com/AdguardTeam/FiltersRegistry/blob/master/filters/filter_17_TrackParam/filter.txt might be better?

Obviously UBO blocklists are 1. fucking huge and 2. do a LOT more than just "strip trackers from URLs", but preprocessing these lists by stripping off DOM-manipulating filters (or basically anything that doesn't touch the URL) and focusing on ones that are usually named "privacy" something should help.

In that case, I would need:

1. Auto-updating list of "privacy" filters to strip trackers off of the URLs - AdGuard privacy list, UBO default & easyprivacy lists
2. Implement anti-breakage shit (UBO list)
3. Script to deduplicate filters
4. Implement UBO parser only for URL transformations
5. Run UBO blocklist-based tracker stripping alongside clearURLs
6. Remove clearURLs implementation except for rawRules matching (which is what allows us to skip the intermediary "redirect" pages)

The motivation for skipping clearURLs for the actual tracker stripping is the existing clearURLs-based approach falls flat on obscure/chinese sites that don't provide any sort of "hints":

• Skimresources, Skimlinks, Redirectingat etc ClearURLs/Rules#12
• chinese wechat (weixin) url tracking param ClearURLs/Rules#13
• xiaomi url tracking param ClearURLs/Rules#14
• URL not shortened on facebook marketplace ClearURLs/Rules#23
• AliExpress URLs are not being cleared ClearURLs/Addon#81
• link not clear ClearURLs/Addon#119
• https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/-/issues/1000

[JaneJeon]

Resources for directly integrating UBO to strip bullshit from URLs:

• https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax
• https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-quick-guide
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gorhill/ubo-core (not ready yet)

Also I have been made aware that even the annoyances rulesets contain tracker stripping magic? https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/02d16a221c276fe58bdd72cc947b26eaf9d1318e/filters/annoyances.txt#L4560-L4561