Smile4ever
commented
7 years ago You can probably add most of the request types below without being annoyed every day. You can ask for every issue you encounter to investigate so I can look if this is something Neat URL should know about.
I have set "useful" when it's likely to contain some kind of (tracking) mess I have set "doubtful" when I think it's not worth it
To answer your question:
beacon
- Requests sent through the Beacon API.
- Useful
csp_report
- Requests sent to the report-uri given in the Content-Security-Policy header, when an attempt to violate the policy is detected.
- Doubtful
font
- Web fonts loaded for a @font-face CSS rule.
- Doubtful
image
- Resources loaded to be rendered as image, except for imageset on browsers that support that type (see browser compatibility below).
- Doubtful
imageset
- Images loaded by a picture element or given in an img element's srcset attribute.
- Doubtful
main_frame
- Top-level documents loaded into a tab.
- Useful (default)
media
- Resources loaded by a video or audio element.
- Doubtful
object
- Resources loaded by an object or embed element.
- Browsers that don't have a dedicated object_subrequest type (see browser compatibility below), also label subsequent requests sent by the plugin as object.
- Doubtful
object_subrequest
- Requests sent by plugins.
- Doubtful
ping
- Requests sent to the URL given in a hyperlink's ping attribute, when the hyperlink is followed. *Browsers that don't have a dedicated beacon type (see browser compatibility below), also label requests sent through the Beacon API as ping.
- Useful
script
- Code that is loaded to be executed by a Githubissues.
- Githubissues is a development platform for aggregating issues.
the addition of allowing the user to decide what request types are filtered is interesting, except i don't know what the heck to do with it :)
in your opinion, and given i'm concerned with privacy (i use the ghacks user.js in combo with my own) but am willing to sacrifice a bit of privacy for a somewhat carefree browsing experience, what request types should be filtered? in other words, what filters are unlikely to cause a lot of breakage? i don't mind fiddling around with some sites on occasion to get them to work, but i don't want to be constantly bothered with it
btw, i like the content on your website - you seem to be pretty busy and knowledgeable for a young fella :)