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proginosko / LeechBlockNG

LeechBlock NG (Next Generation) for Firefox is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them.
https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Leechblock very unreliable #508

Closed blex-max closed 1 week ago

blex-max commented 1 week ago

Firefox on mac Sonoma 14.7.1 - I'd say leechblock works about 30% of the time. The other 70% it does nothing. This is kind of functional, as after a few clicks it kicks in, but it's not great. This is regardless of my referer and keywords as far as I can tell. I've attached screenshots of my options, but I haven't modified them in a way that would obviously cause this imo. Also, perhaps a "dump settings to json" or similar might be useful for submitting these? Thanks!

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blex-max commented 1 week ago

Actually, on further investigation, this does seem to be related to my referrers/keywords - it works much better without them. This is unfortunate as it's my main attraction to leechblock!

blex-max commented 1 week ago

ok, on further experimentation - keywords as allow conditions don't seem to work how I expected them to. I think they're bugged, but I can't be certain.

This works fine: +reddit.com/r/modular +reddit.com/r/synthdiy reddit.com

I'd like to be able to use a referrer allow condition like >google.com I assumed that would allow only the first page referred from, and would block subsequent pages on clicking links - however, it does not, instead allowing all subsequent browsing. Is that expected behaviour?

proginosko commented 1 week ago

Explanations of keywords and referrers here:

https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/faq/keywords/

https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/faq/referrers/

LB relies on the browser accurately reporting the referring site, but unfortunately that doesn't always happen. In theory, only the first page referred from the site should be blocked/allowed.

blex-max commented 1 week ago

to be clear, with keywords as allow conditions:

reddit.com ~modular

The above basically stops reddit.com being blocked reliably, regardless of whether the keyword is in the URL. I don't think thats supposed to be happening.

The referrer limitation makes sense, thanks for explaining

proginosko commented 1 week ago

LB doesn't look for keywords in the URL, only in the text of the page.

To allow based on keywords in the URL:

reddit.com +reddit.com/**modular

blex-max commented 1 week ago

Understood - possibly that could be emphasized in the doc as that's I don't think that's the natural interpretation (though I see the intention). Many thanks!

proginosko commented 1 week ago

Good suggestion. I've added a clarification to the FAQ page.