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What is the mysterious "switchboard" column?

• MichaelCrawford 12y ago
  That's used by the phone company to patch you into the NSA.
• hrjet 12y ago
  The name for the concept comes from the name of the HTTP-SwitchBoard extension (predecessor to uMatrix). It's skeuomorphic. The extensions which have a switchboard like interface enable the user to block requests based on the request's domain name, the primary frame's domain-name, and also the type of request. In contrast, extensions like NoScript have a global switch. If I allow scripts from DontBeEvil.com, they are enabled on all domains. They don't prevent XSS attacks, for example. If there's a better name for this concept, please do suggest one.