Re: [privoxy-devel] FAQ for black/whitelist?

[David S. <da...@at...>]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> Our trustfile does this kind of thing. I'm not sure there's actually
> anyone that uses it, but I tried it once to see what it did, and it
> worked as advertized. One issue is that, say, when you get some place
> like google, you can leapfrog almost anywhere you want by just
> searching and clicking through. The trustfile will enforce a trusted
> referrer concept which theoretically helps to limit where you can go
> once you hit something on the whitelist.

The whitelist for -block will do exactly that - it won't let you 
leapfrog.  But I didn't even know the trustfile would do that - and I 
think that would probably be more straightforward.

> I think the whole notion of control is ideal for privoxy. If we do a
> FAQ we need to also put a plug for the very neglected trustfile :(

Agreed - we should only tell how to do it with the trustfile.  Don't 
bother with the actions files.

- David