Whitelist/blacklist websites

npro

@db3 not exactly answering your specific question, but in case you don't know it already you could add those domains to your /etc/hosts as well.

db3

@npro Ahhh, I'd forgotten that, I'll have a look, may be all that is needed, Thanks

DB

DoctorG

@npro If no other person has root access to Linux, that is a good solution.
But IPs of such domains can be visited.

npro

@DoctorG said in Whitelist/blacklist websites:

But IPs of such domains can be visited.

well initially I thought you could be right, but I don't quite remember if that is the case, I will test it later.
But maybe OP should clarify his use case.

smattin

I don't understand why there is any discussion about this capability. It would be obviously useful to me to avoid being accidentally directed to sites that I don't want to ever visit, like twitter.com

mib3berlin

@smattin
Hi, you can make a feature request for it but I would not vote for it.
I can do this in my routers for a single system or for all PC in the network.

Cheers, mib

deepspacepine

This should totally be a built-in feature. Control over blocking IP/domain access per install instance makes complete sense and without this built-in you need access to hardware like a router firewall, or admin access on the OS, or someone's extension. A built-in user-controlled browser-based blacklist seems more than appropriate.

Zalex108

@deepspacepine said in Whitelist/blacklist websites:

This should totally be a built-in feature. Control over blocking IP/domain access per install instance makes complete sense and without this built-in you need access to hardware like a router firewall, or admin access on the OS, or someone's extension. A built-in user-controlled browser-based blacklist seems more than appropriate.

Hi,

Where is appropiate?

If it's regarding oneself, there are extensions and hosts to add to block sites.

If regarding other users, kids, they will swap to another browser, so Vivaldi Block list has no effect.

Hosts File / Firewall is system wide.
Router is Network wide.

deepspacepine

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deepspacepine

@Zalex108 I think it is appropriate for people who do not trust or interact with extensions on a regular basis and want their web browser to have web blocking built-in.

Zalex108

@deepspacepine

Then you can achieve it adding [*.]Url.whatever to the AdBlocker or create your own list saving it online to have access from different devices.

maciekskontakt

@Zalex108 No it does not work. See the picture.

Zalex108

@maciekskontakt

You have the explanation on the pic itself.

DoctorG

@maciekskontakt What you entered is a domain wildcard not a valid domain with protocol.
https:// instead of :443

You had really added such in Vivaldi? How?
From where had you the such [.*].....:443 entry?

maciekskontakt

@Zalex108 Look what is on left side of the window in screenshot I posted. So how it landed there? There are wildcards and I did not even added them there. Pay attention to screenshot.

By the way it is not wildcard, but regular expression [.*]. I am software engineer (more accurately API architect in NYC banks).

maciekskontakt

@DoctorG

Those on left side was there before I added anything. So good question why they are there and i cannot add similar once.

Where i got the one I try to add? Well you should be aware that they come from Google advertisement (right click on browser on their smuggled ads and investigate it). They generate those domains now probably for Google cloud.

Vivaldi simply fails to block Google ads... again.

Zalex108

@maciekskontakt

You are mixing,
I've said nothing about the wildcard and http/s

The message said what happens,
Just put text instead of just numbers and will be detected as a valid URL.

DoctorG

@maciekskontakt This regex-alike pattern you wanted to add is not correct. You need a scheme and domain part.

DoctorG

@maciekskontakt I use many versions of Vivaldi on Linuxes and Windows and never saw such unfamiliar domain patterns automatically added as webpage permissions.
Vivaldi 6.9 does not add such patterns.

@maciekskontakt said in Whitelist/blacklist websites:

Those on left side was there before I added anything.

So the question is: Who added them, if not you?

A privacy/adblock extension?
A program on your OS?
A managed browser policy
see pages vivaldi://policy and vivaldi://management?