Should cosmetic filtering be removing simple text links?

[bughit]

URL(s) where the issue occurs

w3ctag/design-reviews#467 (comment)

Describe the issue

The above github comment contains a link to doubleclick.net (to illustrate chrome's x-client-data header), which becomes unclear when the link is removed.

What is the upside of removing text links? I don't want to disable cosmetic filtering entirely, because presumably it removes something like large obnoxious ad sections. But then it should be less aggressive and leave simple text links alone.

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It's not a text link, the link is parsing the url to https://ad.doubleclick.net/ which is an ad server and gets hidden by Easylist's generic filter -- ##a[href^="https://ad.doubleclick.net/"]. Generic filter can be disabled on github.

[mapx-]

just add
@@||github.com^$ghide

[bughit]

No doubt it can be worked around, however I am suggesting that cosmetic filtering should be blocking large obnoxious block content. There is not sufficient justification to remove inline text links. The downside is greater than the upside. Why does a user need to be protected from seeing a text link to doubleclick?