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ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.

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More careful/improved ETag filtering

RedSteel-1 opened this issue · comments

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Some services use ETag to achieve needed functionality and not for tracking.

Previously, I've been using the ETag filtering feature in the Trace extension, and haven't had any issues.

Recently I decided to activate the ClearURLs' ETag filtering feature instead, and remove Trace.

And since then, one service started glitching (one of its pages that requires ETag functionality started to refresh on form update).

In addition, this setting in ClearURLs is global, and it is impossible to add exclusions, so either you have it on everywhere, or you have it off everywhere.

Seems like Trace has a more careful/graceful handling of ETag filtering, while ClearURLs filters all ETags without mercy, even the good/needed ones.

Could the ETag filtering functionality in ClearURLs be improved, so that the filtering is done more carefully and smartly?