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Blocking the "www" website with any TLD will block almost every websites with that TLD #479

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@agadiffe

Hi.

If we block ||www.com^, it will block almost every .com websites (this bug applies with any TLD).

blocked:
https://example.com
https://github.com
https://youtube.com
https://google.com
https://chatgpt.com
https://copilot.microsoft.com
... etc (almost everything)

some very few websites seems to be immune (there are probably other exceptions):
https://brave.com
https://news.ycombinator.com

Didn't find a pattern about why these 2 above websites are not blocked.

The rule works as expected in uBlock Origin.

example of an affected adblock list:
The "multi ultimate" list from @hagezi has ||www.be^ (malware website) in it, and therefore, every .be websites are blocked.

I didn't find any opened issue reporting this problem. Neither here or on brave/brave-browser.

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