Ability to make global rules

[insanitybit]

I realize that we can make * / * * rules but once you choose a website to be domain or site specific it removes those rules.

In certain cases, such as when a third party (wp.com) is very common on a lot of websites, it may make sense to have them globally allowed even on a site with a more specific ruleset.

[gorhill]

Related to #105.

[gorhill]

I realize that we can make * / * * rules

Just to clarify, what do you mean by * / * *?

Edit: Ok I get it, this refers to making rules in global scope.

[gorhill]

In the next release, global rules will be copied into the scope at scope-creation time. I do realize it is not as nice as having rules in global scope also apply in local scope. I fear rule bloat if someone has a lot of rules in the global scope (very likely since easy creation of site-scope is recent), which are going to be copied into each scope. I actually mitigate this by filtering whitelist rules only to those which are seen in the target web page at copy time, while blacklist/graylist rules are all copied.

As discussed elsewhere, there are complications in having inheritance between scopes. As it is now, for any cell in the matrix, the allow/block state is guaranteed to be resolved when the evaluation reaches the cell *|* in the matrix (the "all" cell, which cannot be graylisted).

However, admittedly the preset blocked hosts do propagate to narrower scopes. So it's like we could have a set of universe-scoped rules which are seen by all scopes (global * included) without having to copy them, just like the preset blocked hosts (from the 3rd-party lists) are seen from everywhere.