[Privoxy-users] feature suggestion - button editing of per-site permissions

[Steven Kolins]

Yes I’ve done that kind of thing and have managed those types of customizations. Even getting to that point requires changing permissions deeply in the configuration management of the system in ways the OSes don’t facilitate but do allow and editing configuration files, reading documentation, implementing strategies. 

Perhaps if it were easier to enable editing and some managed schemes would allow a broader set of potential users to use privoxy. I don’t know if the particulars on Macs is specifically useful in other OS environments but if adding the admin user who is installing Privoxy to the _privoxy group that manages and runs the daemon, during the install process might facilitate some of these steps. If that is a way to enable the edit ability of privoxy configuration safely, which also still requires editing the config file to allow the two “edit actions” but which is impossible if you aren’t a member of the _privoxy group or use terminal editing actions. Such editing is possible but foreign to the majority of Mac users who otherwise have access to products like NoScript, AdBlock, StopTheMadness and so on that do present in-browser options for managing their configuration.

Or maybe a step during the install enables the installing amount with permissions to edit and then edits the config file to allow editing from within the browser, and drops a shortcut to the privoxy page in the privoxy application folder.

Or I’m sure programmers might think of more elegant solutions.

> On Sep 19, 2021, at 12:03 PM, Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/19/21, Ian Silvester  wrote:
>> 
>> I'd be interested in hearing what other developers think, but my take on
>> what you've outlined in your post would require implementing a whole
>> additional configuration layer to manage which 'undesirable' sites are being
>> filtered, per web site, and then to develop and maintain a database of
>> 'degree of breakage' for each pairing of site and undesirable. That sounds
>> like quite an undertaking.
> 
> Ian,
> 
> It seems like way too much work for a minimal gain.  Especially
> considering most people have
>  enable-edit-actions 0
> in their privoxy config.
> 
> 
> Steven,
> 
> Have you tried adding an "unblock.action" actionsfile to privoxy?
> 
> I got tired of dealing with adblock hostfile providers that kept
> blocking sites I didn't want blocked, so I've got
> $ grep '^action' config.txt
> actionsfile match-all.action # Actions that are applied to all sites
> and maybe overruled later on.
> actionsfile default.action   # Main actions file
> actionsfile user.action      # User customizations
> actionsfile blocksites.action   # my list of sites to block
> actionsfile lightswitch-hosts.action
> actionsfile unified-hosts.action
> actionsfile unblock.action
> 
> unblock.action is listed last and whatever is { -block }'ed in there "wins".
> 
> Lee

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