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- Why my browser-based player doesn't play even after whitelisting all
- What is "strict blocking"?
- In the top left of the matrix, what is "other"?
- How can I see the full URL of requests made on a page?
- What does HTTP Switchboard does more than, say, AdBlock+ or AdBlock?
- What do you gain out of this?
Typical scenario as an example (inspired from issue #40):
- Goto http://www.teamradio.ca.
- Click "LISTEN LIVE 1040" on the right.
- A browser popup window opens (that would be the browser-based player).
The popup menu for HTTPSB is unreachable in the browser-based player window.
Here are snapshots of the difference between using strict blocking or not.
So far, here is what I found:
- favicon.ico
- web fonts
- HTML5 <audio> tag
- HTML5 <video> tag
- SVG files
- I found a behind-the-scene request occurrence by chromium: https://www.google.com/searchdomaincheck?format=url&type=chrome
- Open the popup menu of HTTP Switchboard
- Click on the Stats icon in the top-right corner
- HTTP Switchboard info page opens
- Scroll down to the Geeky stats section
- There you can see the full URL of all requests, blocked or allowed, made by your browser
- Use the drop-down list to select the stats for a specific page
- Use the checkbox filters to narrow to specific types of request
There is AdBlock, and there is AdBlock Plus (which the EFF advise to install).
If you really care about your privacy, it is good to know what is happening behind a web page, so I did some tests to compare AdBlock and AdBlock Plus vs HTTP Switchboard. See the differences for yourself when using real web pages, and make an informed choice:
- AdBlock vs HTTP Switchboard:
- edition.cnn.com (Edit: it appears the diffs are not permanent after all, my original one has been replaced with something else...)
- nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com.
- AdBlock Plus (using EFF installation instructions) vs HTTP Switchboard:
Using out of the box settings for AdBlock and HTTP Switchboard. Using settings suggested by EFF for AdBlock Plus. Note that with HTTP Switchboard, the user does not need to explicitly change the cookie settings in chromium/chrome (as required with AdBlock Plus). If cookies are blacklisted for a domain, any outbound cookie will be removed, regardless of chromium/chrome owns settings.
Nothing, the project is GPLv3. I am having fun doing this though. Oh, and this