[PrivacyBadger] settings

[Alexei]

Hi Sam,

That's a clever idea, to export Badger's settings, change "userAction"
properties to the appropriate value that means "block", and import the
modified settings to get Badger to block all third-party domains it
encountered. It should work; you could test it by importing the modified
file in a new browser profile.

I caution against doing this, however. As you can already tell, Privacy
Badger isn't really made for much manual tweaking. Blocking all third-party
domains will break much of your experience on the Web. You should be able
to let Privacy Badger learn on its own without needing to tinker with the
sliders too much, except for when Privacy Badger breaks a page and you are
willing to try to figure out which domain is responsible, instead of just
disabling Privacy Badger outright for the page.

If you are interested in having more precise control over what is and isn't
allowed to load in your browser, I recommend trying uBlock Origin (
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock) and/or (
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix).

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Sam Knuijver via PrivacyBadger <
privacybadger at lists.eff.org> wrote:

> To block all trackers, I download the json file and set the options as
> follows:
>
> "www.googletagmanager.com":{"userAction":"user_block","dnt"
> :false,"heuristicAction":"","nextUpdateTime":1501103637401},"
> 6346011.fls.doubleclick.net":{"userAction":"user_block","
> dnt":false,"heuristicAction":"","nextUpdateTime":1501322002858},
>
> etc.
> Is this correct?
> I set dnt to false because it seems websites keeping a DNT register is ont
> very useful.
>
> Privacybadger allows you to search a domain too, but Google has a great
> many. So many that the plugin stalls, the slider doesn't respond etc.
> I think it is better to block everything with a single button click and
> just put all the green or yellow marked domains in the whitelist (and make
> a new yellowlist). What do you think?
>
>
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