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What the title nor the github account are up front about is that this is an ad/privacy blocker that comes with a rather large blacklist[1]. I tried disabling it

by MDCore 13y ago

What the title nor the github account are up front about is that this is an ad/privacy blocker that comes with a rather large blacklist[1]. I tried disabling it (because, like the title, I only wanted to block a single thing) but it wouldn't let me work around the blacklist. Perhaps be more up front that this is an adblocker. [1]: This is just one of the blacklists: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/blob/a325083df02bd013ff533054415925af77a79fed/assets/httpsb-blacklist.txt https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/blob/a325083df02b...

pygy_ 13y ago
You could fork it, get rid of the black lists and publish it on the Chrome web store. It is licensed under the GPL, which was created for this very use case.
- MDCore 13y ago
  I suppose I could if I wanted to go to that very large amount of effort just to get that small amount of functionality. Methinks a userscript would be a lot easier. I'd agree with your comment if I'd said "They should take the blacklist out." Instead I wrote that the title and github project are not up front about a core piece of functionality of the plugin.
  - rmrfrmrf 13y ago
    Userscripts wait for the DOM to finish loading, though, no? Thus defeating the purpose of saving bandwidth?
    - tyilo 13y ago
      They run at either "document-start", "document-end" or "document-idle". "document-start" is as soon as possible.
- whatcd 13y ago
  All it takes is a one-time developer registration fee of US$5.00 to verify your account and publish.
  - jasonlotito 13y ago
    Didn't cost me anything to publish to the Chrome store.
lowboy 13y ago
I don't think I agree with your characterisation of the extension. It's a switchboard that happens to have predefined blacklists focused on ad/privacy, not an adblocker. AdBlockPlus doesn't let me do what this tool does, nor does Ghostery. I do think one should be able to ditch/modify the blacklists though, without forking the repo.
gorhill 13y ago
"Allow users to disable/enable preset blacklists" https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78 https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78 This was on my todo list, but there, I formalized it.
- gorhill 13y ago
  Fixed: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78 https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78
gorhill 13y ago
> "the title nor the github account are up front about is that this is an ad/privacy blocker that comes with a rather large blacklist" This has been there for two months: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Quick-tour-%231%3A-3-of-7 https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Quick-tour-%... "Thanks to these preset blacklists maintained by good spirited people, nothing from these locations could make it to the browser" The slide is a bit dated though, as you can graylist or whitelist a preset blacklist entry, which was not possible back then.
- MDCore 13y ago
  Ah. That is pretty obscure though! I can't even see how to get to the tour from the main page... Oh I see now, the Wiki link on the side. It's a good project and I love your UI. I'm not trying to criticise negatively, just point out that I was surprised by one of the major features, and perhaps others would be too.
  - gorhill 13y ago
    Fair enough. Yesterday night I also added the following in the first paragraph of the README file (and detailed description in Chrome store): "As of December 2013, the extension comes with preset blacklists totalling over 45,000 distinct hostnames."

by MDCore 13y ago

pygy_ 13y ago

You could fork it, get rid of the black lists and publish it on the Chrome web store. It is licensed under the GPL, which was created for this very use case.

MDCore 13y ago
I suppose I could if I wanted to go to that very large amount of effort just to get that small amount of functionality. Methinks a userscript would be a lot easier. I'd agree with your comment if I'd said "They should take the blacklist out." Instead I wrote that the title and github project are not up front about a core piece of functionality of the plugin.
- rmrfrmrf 13y ago
  Userscripts wait for the DOM to finish loading, though, no? Thus defeating the purpose of saving bandwidth?
  - tyilo 13y ago
    They run at either "document-start", "document-end" or "document-idle". "document-start" is as soon as possible.
whatcd 13y ago
All it takes is a one-time developer registration fee of US$5.00 to verify your account and publish.
- jasonlotito 13y ago
  Didn't cost me anything to publish to the Chrome store.

lowboy 13y ago

I don't think I agree with your characterisation of the extension. It's a switchboard that happens to have predefined blacklists focused on ad/privacy, not an adblocker. AdBlockPlus doesn't let me do what this tool does, nor does Ghostery. I do think one should be able to ditch/modify the blacklists though, without forking the repo.

gorhill 13y ago

"Allow users to disable/enable preset blacklists" https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78 https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78 This was on my todo list, but there, I formalized it.

gorhill 13y ago
Fixed: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78 https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78

gorhill 13y ago

> "the title nor the github account are up front about is that this is an ad/privacy blocker that comes with a rather large blacklist" This has been there for two months: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Quick-tour-%231%3A-3-of-7 https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Quick-tour-%... "Thanks to these preset blacklists maintained by good spirited people, nothing from these locations could make it to the browser" The slide is a bit dated though, as you can graylist or whitelist a preset blacklist entry, which was not possible back then.

MDCore 13y ago
Ah. That is pretty obscure though! I can't even see how to get to the tour from the main page... Oh I see now, the Wiki link on the side. It's a good project and I love your UI. I'm not trying to criticise negatively, just point out that I was surprised by one of the major features, and perhaps others would be too.
- gorhill 13y ago
  Fair enough. Yesterday night I also added the following in the first paragraph of the README file (and detailed description in Chrome store): "As of December 2013, the extension comes with preset blacklists totalling over 45,000 distinct hostnames."