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Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:03 pm**

Every time I log onto my browser, .hulu.com and .youtube.com show up under Advanced>External Filters>Do not filter objects coming from these sites:

When I delete them, close my browser, and then start again, these sites show up once again. Even after I run CCleaner, and delete everything I can think of in the Mozilla folder on my computer to remove whatever is renewing this exclusion of hulu and youtube from being filtered. What's more, I never knowingly added hulu or youtube to the filtering exclusion. I just noticed that they showed up their one day.

I've tried searching on this forum, and found something for the opposite (a poster wanted to keep some exclusions, but they kept on getting deleted), but it was not helpful for my situation. Would someone help me get rid of the hulu and youtube exclusions permanently? TIA.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:14 pm**

Advanced / external filters question

And ...

External filters are a very experimental feature, disabled by default and mostly introduced to allow Blitzableiter integration. Blitzableiter has bugs and limitations preventing it from working correctly with Youtube and Hulu: it would break them completely, providing no advantage over plain NoScript flash blocking.

Versions up to 2.0.9.7rc3 don't allow filter parameters to be modified (changes can't be saved) until you select the processing executable (the blitzableiter.exe executable, in this case, which must downloaded separately). This is arguably a confusing bug and it's fixed in 2.0.9.7rc4.

Even though the filter has an executable, its whitelist cannot be left empty, but can be modified in any other way (for instance, you can put there just "invalid.invalid" and have the same effect of an empty whitelist). This is surely a bug and it's fixed in 2.0.9.7rc4 as well.

IOW, AFAICT, there is nothing that needs to be done. Just ignore it.

Posted: **Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:37 am**

Would you happen to know if the makers of Blitzableiter are planning to release a version that can filter out hulu and youtube?

P.S. Sorry this is so late. Nobody was answering after around an hour of refreshing my screen every couple of minutes or so, and I've been busy and forgot to check since then.

In any case, thanks for the info.

Posted: **Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:41 am**

Okay. I've tried "invalid.invalid" and that does not work. I have NoScript version 2.1.2.6rc7, so if it's a bug, it sure isn't fixed for me.

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