[Question] What is the difference between Disable, Allow and Block?

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[Question] What is the difference between Disable, Allow and Block? #1758

Closed Ehab-d closed 4 months ago

Ehab-d commented 4 months ago

Describe the question with as much detail as possible.

In Blocklist, what is the difference between Disable, Allow and Block?

If we assume that Disable doesn't do anything, then what's the point of having Allow if it won't do anything either?

This is not considered a question! I wish you update the menu to be clearer because I and everyone I know didn't understand.

App version: 3.8 Windows version: Windows 11

henrypp commented 4 months ago

oh ,ur friends dont understand,and u create duplicate issue, it is very stupid, and there i understand

Ehab-d commented 4 months ago

oh ,ur friends dont understand,and u create duplicate issue, it is very stupid, and there i understand

Sorry for the inconvenience, although I did nothing wrong. This didn't answer the question. About the duplicate: This issue added the idea of making the menu more clear. Thank you.

henrypp commented 4 months ago

it already clear if u dont idiot

Ehab-d commented 4 months ago

it already clear if u dont idiot

Seriously... What is the difference between Allow and Disable?

henrypp commented 4 months ago

Seriously, u r idiot if dont understand alow and disable

Ehab-d commented 3 months ago

Typical Henry reply, arrogant and disrespectful as usual ...🤨

Sometimes I can't believe he is the developer of the great software.

ferrlen commented 1 week ago

Google picks this post as 1st option, so for anyone new:

I also had no idea of the difference, but this answer https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall/issues/1739#issuecomment-2048601278 makes me think that, given the options are in "Blocklists", and blocklists are a list of default addresses to be blocked, the options are:

Allow: this blocklist will override your current firewall rules and allow connection for everything inside of them.
Block: this blocklist will override your current firewall rules and block connection for everything inside of them.
Disable: disables this blocklist, so that it will do nothing (it won't override any rules or set any rules). This is the only option that does nothing, as the other 2 will either allow or block everything in the blocklist.