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As noted in recent changes to the NoScript Quick Start Guide, the use of Akamai as a third-party content helper server is declining, being replaced in large part by CDNs, "static" sites, and "img" sites.
For example, the Default Whitelist already includes YouTube and ytimg; Yahoo and yimg; and passportimages.net, for OOB new-user-friendliness.

The default whitelist also includes gmail.com, google.com and googleapis.com. These sites, and others that require that Google scripting be allowed, often require gstatic.com as well.

So the question is: Should gstatic.com be added to the default whitelist, for more OOB friendliness? -- knowing that power-users will fine-tune the whitelist to their own tastes and needs, anyway.

Thanks for all responses (especially Giorgio's ).

Tom T. wrote:So the question is: Should gstatic.com be added to the default whitelist, for more OOB friendliness?

Yes it should, and in fact it has been there for quite a long time now.
The relevant FAQ didn't reflect this yet, though, so thanks for noticing.

(ALL of the named anchors appear gone from the page? Ah, quite right. It is now just a simple textual listing.)

therube wrote:(ALL of the named anchors appear gone from the page? Ah, quite right. It is now just a simple textual listing.)

They're created on the fly client side if you've got JavaScript enabled.

Heh. You're right. But who keeps JS enabled .

And it's what, cl.js that does that?

> Yes.

Giorgio Maone wrote:

Tom T. wrote:So the question is: Should gstatic.com be added to the default whitelist, for more OOB friendliness?

Yes it should, and in fact it has been there for quite a long time now.
The relevant FAQ didn't reflect this yet, though, so thanks for noticing.

Yes, I deleted all Google from default w/l, so used only the FAQ as a source. Thanks for updating the FAQ.