oldetyme1 wrote:I've given this a few tries, but I am still totally confused.
script object media frame font webgl fetch other
The heck is a user supposed to do with all that?
I think those various things are way too much for anyone to manage regularly.
I think this may help explain the new options. Take a look at this screen from the old NoScript:
https://noscript.net/noscript/screensho ... ddings.png
These options used to be tucked away in the Options | Embeddings screen. Instead of setting these options to block additional page content for all sites, the new way lets you pick which elements are blocked per-domain.
So, if you didn't want to see fonts from fonts.google.com but allow fonts for fonts.notAnAdvertisingCompany.com, you could create a Custom policy that allows fonts for fonts.notAnAdvertisingCompany.com.
What is confusing is currently you can toggle the options for Default, Trusted, and Untrusted items on every domain line when these would really apply on all domains since they are global prefs. Only Custom should have these options on this screen and put the Default, Trusted, and Untrusted sections on the Global Options screen (the screen that comes up when you click the icon in the upper-right corner.)
Script: javascript
Object: a way to embed stuff into a web page (audio, video, Java applets, ActiveX, PDF, and Flash)
Media: audio/video feeds
Frame: HTML Frames are these sorts squares on a web page that are content from another web page https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_iframe.asp
Font: when sites download their own fonts to Beautify the Web https://fonts.google.com
webgl: a graphical animation web technology. Here's some webgl examples https://experiments.withgoogle.com/chrome?tag=WebGL
fetch: a way to pull stuff down to load a web page. It's like the most generic thing that could be blocked or allowed from a domain.
other: I guess other random junk
I would say it's a more advanced way to block if you want to fine-tune how much additional content you want to block besides just being a javascript blocker. We've always had these preferences, they were just tucked away and didn't let you edit them per-site. That's why I wanted to tuck them away for the Default, Trusted, and Untrusted options because those 3 options would toggle it for all Default, Trusted, and Untrusted domains.
Does that help?