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Support overrides to the eTLD+1 exception policy from default adblock filter lists #20426

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brave/brave-core
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@antonok-edm

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The default adblock engine, into which the default Brave filter lists are loaded, is subject to first-party exceptions to improve web compatibility when in standard Shields blocking mode, as per https://brave.com/privacy-updates/9-web-compat-blocking/.

However, there are cases where we can verify that some first-party resources are an invasion of privacy, cause excessive CPU load, or are otherwise harmful to users and do not break pages - in this case we'd like a way to override the first-party exception policy, and ensure that those requests are blocked anyways in standard Shields mode.

This can be accomplished by loading some filters into a separate adblock engine without the first-party exceptions.

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