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How to quickly narrow which sites to whitelist?
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 6:49 am
by Coldblackice
Is there a way to "hone" in on what sites you might need to whitelist in order to get a site's functionality to function correctly?
Most often, I'll be at a site that has a video I want to see, which doesn't load. I then have to manually (and temporarily) enable the sites one by one in order to find the media site to enable permanently.
I realize the shortcut is to just temporarily allow all, but that means having to do that next/every time, and at the same time, it also blanket permits sites that might not be safe.
It'd be great if there was some sort of "targeting" system, much like AdBlock Plus' "select element" feature.
Re: How to quickly narrow which sites to whitelist?
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 10:30 am
by Thrawn
Videos will normally be objects, so they'll 4have a placeholder; clicking it should do what you need. Or you can use the Blocked Objects submenu.
If there are other scripts needed for the video to work, then it's not really possible for NoScript to know what does what, because the scripts are blocked before being downloaded. NoScript would have to download them and basically run a complete sandboxed JavaScript interpreter to work out exactly what they will do. Not going to happen.
Re: How to quickly narrow which sites to whitelist?
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:24 pm
by Hecuba's daughter
nvm
Re: How to quickly narrow which sites to whitelist?
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 6:44 am
by Coldblackice
Thanks for the tips and info. As I've been reading through these, I've realized that my current method isn't the best -- what I've been doing is TA'ing one site at a time, refreshing the page, and if nothing changes, revoking that TA and TA'ing another site.
But I've just realized that it's entirely redundant to "manually" revoke TAs one by one! A bit easier to TA one by one until it works, and then just revoke all TAs at once.
It would be nice if we could see right away if a TA makes something work, rather than having to reload the page, but I'm guessing that wouldn't work.
Re: How to quickly narrow which sites to whitelist?
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 10:14 am
by Thrawn
Coldblackice wrote:
But I've just realized that it's entirely redundant to "manually" revoke TAs one by one! A bit easier to TA one by one until it works, and then just revoke all TAs at once.
You can also use 'Make Page Permissions Permanent' after you've done that.
It would be nice if we could see right away if a TA makes something work, rather than having to reload the page, but I'm guessing that wouldn't work.
No, because the scripts aren't downloaded at all when the site is blocked.