I don't think I'll ever understand the rules

[jawz101]

Is there a way to take a different approach? Block everything and then have some sort of mechanism to create exceptions on the fly? Every time I look at the little pop-up I see so many things slip through that are unnecessary for a page to work.

I don't know if it is the interface or how web pages function but rule building confuses me. I can understand regex, create uBlock Origin rules, NoScript, uMatrix, but what this does loses me.

Are there any video tutorials or other ways to tackle this visually?

[Cimbali]

Hi @jawz101 and sorry for the confusion the rules are causing.

So far, all we have as documentation are 3 wiki pages:

• on the interface
• on the rules themselves
• on how to whitelist a page or URL.

I can see if there’s a way to add some other documentation, maybe a video tutorial can be a good idea indeed.

Another avenue could be to change the syntax of the rules, do you think that could be helpful? Currently we’re able to export them to this uBlock-like format that is used by NeatURL. Do you think an interface to edit the rules in this format could be more helpful to you ?

[jawz101]

Oooh I like the Interface instructions. For the rules page, could you maybe include a little example of the rule that would remove the thing to be removed?

And is there a way to temporarily comment out a rule? Does the pop-up display all that could be touched or just the things the rules are triggering?

sidenote: one thing I am playing with is deny by default. Say, to remove all parameters I have a rule . to remove .* (i think that's how it would work). And then see what breaks. I don't know if that covers all 4 rule types.