Walmart.com redirects to account sign-in screen (Brave Linux and Mac, Not FF or Safari)

@fanboynz @shivan

Just seeing messages. Just performed testing and results below.

Results of adding scriplets (as per above post Walmart.com redirects to account sign-in screen (Brave Linux and Mac, Not FF or Safari) - #39 by fanboynz). Resource Library version for all Brave versions is 1.0.58. Tested submenus and adding items to cart before and after login.

  1. Release 1.57.49 - No issues before or after login

  2. Beta 1.58.91 - No issues before or after login

  3. Nightly 1.59.34 - Does not redirect to login but connot use Department/Services submenus on main page and gray boxes instead of item display for some items on main page. Cannot add items to cart. Unable to login site: can enter email at prompt but when press enter, data entry box clears and nothing happens.

Thanks for your continued attention to this issue.

Current status for me: no change / I’m still redirected to a Walmart log-in page.

As per this comment, I’ll try again tomorrow.

Details:

Brave 1.57.47 Chromium: 116.0.5845.96 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision 180d2fdf443f9be410c38fd8c4ccfe7e99ea2b16
OS Linux
JavaScript V8 11.6.189.18

Brave Ad Block Resources Library - Version: 1.0.58
Status - Up-to-date

Per your recent message, I added

walmart.com##+js(cookie-remover.js, sod)
walmart.com##+js(set-cookie, sod, 0)

to Settings | Shields | Content filtering | Create custom filters

and saved the result; then closed Brave, re-opened Brave and tried the Walmart site. As reported, I’m redirected to a log-in page.

BTW, I tried this both with and with out the custom filter suggested earlier by @anon57438784

walmart.com/##+js(acs,%20document.documentElement.lang)

No change either with or without - I continue to be redirected.

But, as per your ‘give it 24 hours’ I’ll try again tomorrow.

Again, thanks.

24 hours later: when I visit the Walmart site, I’m no longer redirected. Success!

Note: the 3 custom rules (2 suggested my @fanboynz , one by @anon57438784 ) are still in place. End-of-the-week I’ll experiment removing those rules.

Thanks -all- for your attention and help.

Thank you all for keeping up on this issue.

As of late 8/23/23 I can now browse in brave on walmart’s website without a redirect! Yay! I can even create new tab groups without a redirect happening as it was before. That’s progress! I see above the discussion that it’s a problem with the “GPC.” Need to dig into that.

So I’m getting the impression that walmart no likey the concept of privacy online. I know, no duh. Why can’t it be enough to get my money for the product! Data schmata!

The one thing I’ve run into with their website is that I can’t actually make a purchase yet. Come on Brave! Help us fight this! :wink: :slight_smile: . Anyhow, thank you for what’s been done thus far. I’ll keep an eye out.

If needed and helps in any way, as requested above, here’s my specs:

Brave Ad Block Resources Library - Version: 1.0.61
Status - Updated

Brave 1.56.20, Chromium 115.0.5790.171

Android 13

Otherwise onto the global privacy control research. Thanks for taking the time to school me. Cheers all.

@fanboynz @Sunnybluf

Confirming: for me, this problem (Walmart site redirecting to a request for personal identification) appears to be resolved. I removed the custom filters offered by @anon57438784 and @fanboynz. All’s well.

One follow-up: I’d be cautious about flaying Walmart for their apparent implementation of Global Privacy Control: “Tell us who you are (request for an email address or Walmart account) and we’ll honor your specific privacy requests”.

With my less-than-complete knowledge and understanding of the EU’s GDPR and California’s Consumer Privacy Act Regulations it seems to me Walmart may be merely attempting to be in compliance.

Does this incident point to a potential flaw in how Brave has implemented Global Privacy Control? I don’t know.

Not a flaw, At some stage browsers will enabled Global Privacy Control by default. How websites deal with it is another issue.

If there is roadblocks caused by a website using GPC checks. we’ll try to reach out to the website or implement mitgations where needed.