Bug 492821

Summary: Feature Request: Tell Falkon within its GUI which domains it should block
Product: [Applications] Falkon Reporter: Jens <senf>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: senf
Priority: NOR    
Version: 24.08.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Jens 2024-09-08 16:09:43 UTC
In Firefox and at least the Firefox-fork LibreWolf you can specify which domains should be blocked by FF/LW. 

To achieve this, one needs to specify every single domain in the file policies.json using the following syntax (here some examples):

"WebsiteFilter": {
"Block": [
"*://*google.*/*", "*://*.twitter.com/*", "*://*.facebook.com/*", "*://*.gmail.com/*", "*://*.microsoft.com/*", "*://*.x.com/*", "*://*.office.com/*", "*://*.linkedin.com/*",  "*://*.cloudfare.com/*", "*://*.telegram.org/*", "*://*.apple.com/*", "*://*.tiktok.com/*", "*://*.*.cn/*", "*://*.*.kp/*"
],

If you make at least one single syntax error when defining here domain names in this array, then the respective domains do not get blocked by FF/LW. 

Here you can find the documentation about this kind of configuration (in section "WebsiteFilter"):

https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/

How about giving users the chance to quite easily enter the names of domains they want to get blocked by Falkon within the Falkon GUI ?