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Dynamic filtering: default deny

Raymond Hill edited this page Feb 8, 2015 · 46 revisions

Default-deny is an awesome blocking mode for whoever is ready for the task of having to un-break web sites during the first visit, and agrees that in general most 3rd-party resources from web pages:

  • are not really all required
  • increase privacy exposure

Default-deny
Default-deny engaged, through the default blocking of 3rd-party network requests.

The benefits of using default-deny are plenty:

  • Faster page load
  • Reduction of bandwidth consumption
  • Reduction of privacy exposure
  • Increase browser security
  • Easier on your browser's memory and CPU footprint

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You can disengage default-deny for the current site with one click: set the "3rd-party" local setting to noop:

Default-deny
Default-deny cancelled locally.

This results in default-deny being disengaged for the current site (theguardian.com in the picture), while keeping engaged static filtering (_EasyList, EasyPrivacy, etc.)

working on it.. topic to cover:

no need to use malware domain lists since all 3rd-parties are blocked by default = leaner uBlock

ubiquitous servers blocked by default, i.e. no need to pre-emptively block facebook, google, twitter, linkdin, etc. to prevent tracking by these

provide many real-life examples of how easy it is to un-break websites, including worst case scenario of simply setting the 3rd-party cell to noop to completely disengage default-deny for one specific web site, if it gets too complicated

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