Alternative fromt-ends for social media
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turtlebeach
would there be a way of including all those alternative front-ends like redlib for Reddit, Trollishy for Tiktok, Gramsnap for Instagram, those kind of things, as part of an Instagram block or a Youtube block etc? As in, at the moment one might block Tiktok outright (including its CDNs), but certain of these 'tiktok viewer' sites can load up videos just fine (presumably because they reroute the content a bit or something?). I know these sites are relatively numerous, but I think there are already blocklists out there that might form the basis of a block here on TL and they don't appear that often, so a scan (automated?) every couple of months could maybe pick up all the new ones, idk? I know this isn't super straightforward, but it's a bit frustrating that when X site is supposed to be blocked entirely, that there are other accessible ways to the same content.
I guess on the dashboard blocking the 'app' Instagram only targets what Cloudflare have deemed Instagram's domains, so I'm not sure how this would work... Cloudflare wouldn't add these to an Instagram category and TL doesn't have categories of it's own right - it only looks to Cloudflare's?
Ben
block rules only need to be above conflicting allow rules (overlapping categories etc). As long as they are below conflicting allow rules, the order does not matter
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turtlebeach
Ben block rules only need to be below conflicting allow rules? So one’s content policy should have all the allow rules at the top and all the block rules at the bottom, but within each section the order is irrelevant?
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turtlebeach
Ben also I’m encountering a bug where changes to rules aren’t being saved. Yesterday I added about 10-15 domains to a new rule (which is well below the 100 limit), clicked save and today these additions have disappeared. Help!
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turtlebeach
Also FYI, if I want to add new domains then - to a new rule - when my profile is locked I can create a new blacklist, but cannot reorder it while my profile is locked. This seems to me it might be an issue, given I think you recommend always-on blacklists should be ordered above blacklists that are active on schedules?
Ben
My suggestion would be to use the default-deny approach for the social media category. Block the entire social networking category, then add approved social apps to another allowlist rule.
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turtlebeach
Ben thanks for the reply. This probably won't work me I'm afraid, at least not at the moment - I may not use popular social media, but that doesn't mean I want want to preclude coming across a new calmer social media platform, like are.na or something. If I was to default-deny, I wouldn't know if a site new to me and classed as social media by Cloudflare would be worth approving, not to mention having to unlock my profile to do this - better to keep profile locked as much as possible I think.
So I've been adding some of these social media viewer sites to my main always-on blocklist, but I'm getting this error (see attached)... What does this mean?
Thanks
Ben
turtlebeach Each rule is limited to 100 domains and 100 keywords, so you'd need to create a new rule to add more domains.
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turtlebeach
Ben ahh sorry I didn’t know about this (could this be more prominently displayed?). Weird thing is though that it lets me add them and can save my changes and they remain… how many rules can you have?
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turtlebeach
Actually having said that it’s now removed them, even though on initial save of changes they remained…
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turtlebeach
Ben Also FYI, if I want to add new domains then - to a new rule - when my profile is locked I can create a new blacklist, but cannot reorder it while my profile is locked. This seems to me it might be an issue, given I think you recommend always-on blacklists should be ordered above blacklists that are active on schedules?l