Re:Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension f...
by gorhill on Friday May 02, 2014 @08:55AM
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> Does that mean these whitelistings only apply to pages in a Google subdomain
Yes, the top-most left-most box is for choosing where the rules apply, I call it the scope selector.
"" = global scope
".example.com" = any web page which sits on 'example.com' or a subdomain of 'example.com'
"example.com" = any web page which sits exactly on 'example.com'
If multiple scopes exist for a given web page, the most narrow one is used. Also, scopes are really sandboxes, there is no inheritance of rules across scopes (trying to implement this is opening a can of worms both on usability and code-wise).
One last question (sorry!): I just used the "Google" preset configuration to load gmail and it all just worked. I'm still trying to get the hang of interpreting the grid, but at the top left I see in blue ".google.com". Does that mean these whitelistings only apply to pages in a Google subdomain? For example: google analytics requests from some other* domain aren't whitelisted?