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		stonogo on June 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inse... Despite repeated requests, Chrome and Chromium still misclassify certain requests in order to hide them from content filters. Here is one example: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=611453

gruez on June 7, 2020 [–]

I don't get it. The ticket wants beacons/pings to be classified as the same request type as xhr, and it's marked as WONTFIX. Isn't this a good thing?

stonogo on June 7, 2020 | [–]

whether they get lumped in with xhr or with 'other' is immaterial; the problem is the chromium developers refuse to have a 'ping' type like other browser engines do.

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