Won't block 3rd party properly
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@SweetP I've tried it on another laptop with the fresh v4 from the website. I love the new types and control it allows.
Sadly, the bug still seems to happen. As soon as I add the 2 exceptions (for which I've disabled all types except the document), the page loads everything from 3rd party domains, which is weird.
Maybe the bug is that it ignores the exceptions lists settings for 3rd party types altogether?
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@SweetP And thank you for the quick fix.
As a side note, does the exceptions list enforce subdomains or just the main domain?
(i.e. research.investors.com vs investors.com)From what I could tell, if I add just the subdomain (research.investors.com) to the exceptions list, other subdomains (myibd.investors.com, auth.investors.com, etc.) from that main domain get whitelisted as well. Is this a Safari API limitation?
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@SweetP yeah, but now if I add just the subdomain research.investors.com for example, the other subdomains from investors.com get somehow to load JS and what I selected for the research.investors.com subdomain. The root domain doesn’t have a exception added. That is, I just have 1 rule, for the subdomain research.
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@SweetP yes, I would think so. But currently it loads other subdomains that are at the same level as it is. Like auth.investors.com gets to load stuff with only the 1 rule added for research.investors.com.
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@SweetP I tried that and also tried blocking other subdomains explicitly but still they load. It’s weird.
This is probably a corner case, as the bulk of the app is about blocking 3rd party resources.
But with new tracking/fingerprinting scripts being hosted on subdomains they usually pass by unfiltered.It would be great to specifically add an exception to those pesky subdomains and let all other subdomains load. But currently the exception doesn’t apply if one is permitting JS, all will load regardless.
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@NickC OK, it finally updated in the store and got to update my main Mac.
I tried it out and as detailed, I think there's still a minor bug either with the subdomain enforcement or with Webkit itself.
From the 2 rules added, I would expect the images from www.investors.com to be blocked and just the ones on research.investors.com to be allowed. However, this is not the case. It would make for a fairly advanced Ad-blocker with this feature fully working
Maybe when you get some spare time to investigate you can figure where the issue lies. Thanks for all your work so far!