diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Build/targets/Blazor.MonoRuntime.props b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Build/targets/Blazor.MonoRuntime.props
index 47932fe42f..54f184f139 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Build/targets/Blazor.MonoRuntime.props
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Build/targets/Blazor.MonoRuntime.props
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup Label="Blazor build outputs">
     <MonoLinkerI18NAssemblies>none</MonoLinkerI18NAssemblies> <!-- See Mono linker docs - allows comma-separated values from: none,all,cjk,mideast,other,rare,west -->
-    <AdditionalMonoLinkerOptions>-c link -u link -b true -t --verbose </AdditionalMonoLinkerOptions>
+    <AdditionalMonoLinkerOptions>--verbose --strip-security true --exclude-feature com --exclude-feature sre -v false -c link -u link -b true</AdditionalMonoLinkerOptions>
     <BaseBlazorDistPath>dist/</BaseBlazorDistPath>
     <BaseBlazorPackageContentOutputPath>$(BaseBlazorDistPath)_content/</BaseBlazorPackageContentOutputPath>
     <BaseBlazorRuntimeOutputPath>$(BaseBlazorDistPath)_framework/</BaseBlazorRuntimeOutputPath>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Build/targets/BuiltInBclLinkerDescriptor.xml b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Build/targets/BuiltInBclLinkerDescriptor.xml
index bda3b13a5e..ba6c7faa11 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Build/targets/BuiltInBclLinkerDescriptor.xml
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Build/targets/BuiltInBclLinkerDescriptor.xml
@@ -8,18 +8,5 @@
     <!-- Preserve all methods on WasmRuntime, because these are called by JS-side code
     to implement timers. Fixes https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor/issues/239 -->
     <type fullname="System.Threading.WasmRuntime" />
-
-    <!-- Mono redirects certain string constructor calls to CreateString internally, so preserve them -->
-    <type fullname="System.String">
-      <method signature="System.String CreateString(System.Char,System.Int32)" />
-      <method signature="System.String CreateString(System.Char[])" />
-      <method signature="System.String CreateString(System.Char[],System.Int32,System.Int32)" />
-      <method signature="System.String CreateString(System.Char*)" />
-      <method signature="System.String CreateString(System.Char*,System.Int32,System.Int32)" />
-      <method signature="System.String CreateString(System.SByte*)" />
-      <method signature="System.String CreateString(System.SByte*,System.Int32,System.Int32)" />
-      <method signature="System.String CreateString(System.SByte*,System.Int32,System.Int32,System.Text.Encoding)" />
-      <method signature="System.String CreateString(System.ReadOnlySpan`1&lt;System.Char&gt;)" />
-    </type>
   </assembly>
 </linker>