size of webhook payload can trigger job failure

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this is somewhat related to #392406 (closed) as the error message (and outcome) is the same (job fails to run), but the reason (and possible workarounds) are non-workable.

I'm using a webhook from a GitHub project to trigger a pipeline in my local GitLab-CE instance (whenever the GitHub project is updated). GitHub calls webhooks with some largish JSON payload (and given that it is GitHub, I cannot do much about it). E.g. in one failing instance, the payload had 197702 bytes.

My pipeline itself doesn't do anything with this payload. However, the mere existence of the large payload cases my jobs to fail with:

exec /usr/bin/dumb-init: argument list too long
ERROR: Job failed: prepare environment: exit code 1. Check https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/shells/index.html#shell-profile-loading for more information

Is there a way to prevent passing the TRIGGER_PAYLOAD to a triggered pipeline?