Publisher list improvements (uplift to 1.7.x)

[NejcZdovc]

Uplift of #5301
Uplift of #5355
Uplift of #5356

Fixes brave/brave-browser#9376
Fixes brave/brave-browser#9440
Fixes brave/brave-browser#9441

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[kjozwiak]

Restarting Android as dist failed due to the node disconnecting as per https://ci.brave.com/job/brave-browser-build-pr/job/pr5301_publisher-list-improvments_1.7.x/1/execution/node/538/log

17:41:22  Cannot contact i-0d44ce7f07e22a3b8: hudson.remoting.ChannelClosedException: Channel "hudson.remoting.Channel@391dbf1d:i-0d44ce7f07e22a3b8": Remote call on i-0d44ce7f07e22a3b8 failed. The channel is closing down or has closed down
17:46:27  Could not connect to i-0d44ce7f07e22a3b8 to send interrupt signal to process

Restarting Linux as dist failed due to the node disconnecting as per https://ci.brave.com/job/brave-browser-build-pr/job/pr5301_publisher-list-improvments_1.7.x/1/execution/node/566/log/:

17:57:56  Cannot contact linux-spot-6: hudson.remoting.ChannelClosedException: Channel "hudson.remoting.Channel@51ac58d:linux-spot-6": Remote call on linux-spot-6 failed. The channel is closing down or has closed down
18:05:47  ninja: build stopped: interrupted by user.
18:10:54  wrapper script does not seem to be touching the log file in /home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/publisher-list-improvments_1.7.x@tmp/durable-5bf07ee8
18:10:54  (JENKINS-48300: if on an extremely laggy filesystem, consider -Dorg.jenkinsci.plugins.durabletask.BourneShellScript.HEARTBEAT_CHECK_INTERVAL=86400)

Restarting Win x64 due to init failing as per https://ci.brave.com/job/brave-browser-build-pr/job/pr5301_publisher-list-improvments_1.7.x/1/execution/node/205/log/.

[kjozwiak]

Restarting Win x64 as it looks like init failed as per https://ci.brave.com/job/brave-browser-build-pr/job/pr5301_publisher-list-improvments_1.7.x/2/execution/node/307/log/

19:42:05  Warning: Running gclient on Python 3. 
19:42:05  If you encounter any issues, please file a bug on crbug.com under the Infra>SDK component.
19:42:05  
19:42:05  
19:42:05  WARNING: Your metrics.cfg file was invalid or nonexistent. A new one will be created.
19:42:05  
19:42:05  
19:42:05  Traceback (most recent call last):
19:42:05  
19:42:05    File "C:\.7.x\vendor\depot_tools\gclient_utils.py", line 143, in SyntaxErrorToError
19:42:05      e.lineno, e.offset, re.sub(r'[\r\n]*$', '', e.text))
19:42:05    File "C:\Users\Administrator\.vpython-root\6caf28\lib\re.py", line 208, in sub
19:42:05      return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
19:42:05  
19:42:05  TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object

[bsclifton]

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