[webkit-help] Feedback and questions regarding Content Blocking Extensions

[Romain Jacquinot]

Thank you for your quick reply.

The if-domain only solves half the issue. For instance, if I want to whitelist all pages under the apple.com <http://apple.com/> domain, it works with something like this:

    {
        "action": {
            "type": "ignore-previous-rules"
        },
        "trigger": {
            "url-filter": ".*",
            "if-domain": ["*apple.com"]
        }
    }

It also works with subdomains, like appleid.apple.com <http://appleid.apple.com/>:

    {
        "action": {
            "type": "ignore-previous-rules"
        },
        "trigger": {
            "url-filter": ".*",
            "if-domain": [“*appleid.apple.com"]
        }
    }

However, if I only want to whitelist a given webpage like apple.com/mac <http://apple.com/mac>, this doesn’t work:

    {
        "action": {
            "type": "ignore-previous-rules"
        },
        "trigger": {
            "url-filter": "apple\\.com/mac",
            "if-domain": ["*apple.com"]
        }
    }

This also doesn’t work since this is not a valid domain:

    {
        "action": {
            "type": "ignore-previous-rules"
        },
        "trigger": {
            "url-filter": ".*",
            "if-domain": ["*apple.com/mac"]
        }
    }

Is there currently some way to only whitelist a given webpage and have all its resources loaded?

> On Aug 13, 2015, at 11:24 PM, Alex Christensen <achristensen at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your bug reports.  Feedback like this helps improve our development.
>> On Aug 13, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Romain Jacquinot <rjacquinot at me.com <mailto:rjacquinot at me.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> After a few days experimenting with Content Blocking in Safari, I have a few questions / some feedback:
>> 
>> 1) There are currently no recursive exception rules. It is therefore not possible to whitelist a full website or webpage, i.e. ignoring all rules regardless of where the content comes from. I've filed a bug report at bugreport.apple.com <http://bugreport.apple.com/>: #22268224. Are there any plans to add this feature before the release of iOS 9.0 and OS X 10.11?
> This is what if-domain and unless-domain are for.  Sometimes a website needs a very specific rule that would break other websites, or a common rule would break a certain website.  Try something like this:
> {"action": {"type": "ignore-previous-rules"},"trigger": {"url-filter": ".*","if-domain”:”*example.com <http://example.com/>”}}
>> 
>> 2) Enabling content blockers from Safari Settings may be complicated for some non-tech-savvy users. It would be great to be able to open Safari Settings directly (or even better Content Blockers' Settings) from a third-party app using URL-schemes. Bug report: #22217664
>> 
>> 3) With iOS 9.0 (13A4325c), content blocking doesn’t work on iPad, only in the simulator. I've filed a bug report at bugreport.apple.com <http://bugreport.apple.com/>: #22217578. Is it a known bug?
>> 
>> 4) There doesn’t seem to be a way to programmatically enable/disable a previously-enabled content blocker without having to go through the compiler again when re-enabling it. I’ve filed a bug report at bugreport.apple.com <http://bugreport.apple.com/> (#22270848) with an example of use case.
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Romain
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