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Cookieblock all not-yet-blocked trackers (change below-threshold/most permissive state from "green" to "yellow") #1514

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paoletto opened this issue Jul 18, 2017 · 8 comments
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enhancement heuristic Badger's core learning-what-to-block functionality low priority

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I personally find odd that this request hasn't been implemented yet (= someone pushing not to).
Anyway, I request, again, to be allowed to chose what is the most permissive mode i want privacy badger to use automatically.
E.g., if i set it to yellow, privacy badger should be only allowed to automatically set a tracker to yellow or red.
If i want a specific tracker to be green, i can do it manually.

I think it's not a big deal to add this feature, so i hope to see it in relatively soon.
Thank you.

@ghostwords ghostwords added heuristic Badger's core learning-what-to-block functionality duplicate labels Jul 18, 2017
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@ghostwords ghostwords marked this as a duplicate of #1011 Jul 18, 2017
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@paoletto to elaborate a little on why this is hard, Privacy Badger uses a heuristic to determine if something is a tracker. Sometimes this heuristic is incorrect, so we require that the tracker trigger the heuristic 3 times before marking it red or yellow. If we blocked all "potential trackers" we would probably block many sites incorrectly.

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The point of my request is that sometimes the users (like me) are ok with only allowing 2 states for the heuristic: yellow and red. Meaning that by default nothing is green.
If a site is rendered incorrectly, well, that's quite easy to detect, and to slide the tracker setting to green.
By the way, i have never seen a site rendered incorrectly with everything set to yellow.
Sometimes, instead, it happens when trackers go to red.
In general allowing me to remove green, and leaving it only as a manual option can be handy for some.
I remember this having been asked in the past too.

@ghostwords ghostwords added the yellowlist Domains on this list are allowed but with restrictions: no referrer headers or cookies/localStorage label Jul 28, 2017
@ghostwords ghostwords reopened this Oct 18, 2017
@ghostwords ghostwords added enhancement and removed duplicate yellowlist Domains on this list are allowed but with restrictions: no referrer headers or cookies/localStorage labels Oct 18, 2017
@ghostwords ghostwords changed the title Allow users to set the most permissive state to yellow Oct 18, 2017
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ghostwords commented Oct 18, 2017

Reopening as per #1011 (comment). We should investigate at some point to see how much extra breakage this would cause if we were to do this for all Privacy Badger users. I don't think it makes sense to implement this as an optional feature, however.

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@ghostwords ghostwords marked this as not a duplicate of #1011 Sep 15, 2019
@ghostwords ghostwords changed the title Consider changing default tracking domain state to "yellow" or "cookieblock" Sep 15, 2019
@ghostwords ghostwords changed the title Cookieblock all not-yet-blocked trackers (change below-threshold state from "green" to "yellow") Sep 15, 2019
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enhancement heuristic Badger's core learning-what-to-block functionality low priority
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