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+<html>
+ <head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8">
+
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/light_theme.css">
+ </head>
+
+ <body>
+ <h3><img class="title" src="../shared_images/local_activity_blue_light.png"> Resource Requests</h3>
+
+ <p>When a URL is loaded, it typically makes a number of resource requests for CCS, JavaScript, image, and other files. Details about these requests can be viewed in the Requests activity.
+ The navigation drawer has a link to the Requests activity and also shows how many requests were blocked. Tapping on a request displays details about why it was allowed or blocked.</p>
+
+ <p><img class="center21" src="images/request_details.png"></p>
+
+ <p>Privacy Browser includes four <a href="https://easylist.to/">common blocklists</a> based on the <a href="https://adblockplus.org/filters">Adblock syntax</a>:
+ EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Fanboy’s Annoyance List, and Fanboy’s Social Blocking List.
+ These blocklists are processed by Privacy Browser into the following 22 sublists, which check resource requests in the order listed.</p>
+
+ <ol>
+ <li>Main Whitelist</li>
+ <li>Final Whitelist</li>
+ <li>Domain Whitelist</li>
+ <li>Domain Initial Whitelist</li>
+ <li>Domain Final Whitelist</li>
+ <li>Third-Party Whitelist</li>
+ <li>Third-Party Domain Whitelist</li>
+ <li>Third-Party Domain Initial Whitelist</li>
+ <li>Main Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Initial Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Final Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Domain Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Domain Initial Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Domain Final Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Domain Regular Expression Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Third-Party Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Third-Party Initial Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Third-Party Domain Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Third-Party Domain Initial Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Third-Party Regular Expression Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Third-Party Domain Regular Expression Blacklist</li>
+ <li>Regular Expression Blacklist</li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <p>Initial lists check against the beginning of the URL. Final lists check against the end of the URL. Domain lists only check against certain domains.
+ Third-party lists only apply if the root domain of the request is different than the root domain of the main URL.
+ Regular expression lists follow the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression">regular expression syntax</a>. Each sublist item has one or more entry.
+ In the case of domain sublists, the resource request is only checked against the item if the first entry matches the domain of the main URL.</p>
+
+ <p>Because of limitations in Android’s WebView, and to speed up processing of requests, Privacy Browser implements a simplified interpretation of the Adblock syntax.
+ This can sometimes lead to false positives, where resources are allowed or blocked in ways that weren’t intended by the original entry.
+ A more detailed description of how the blocklist entries are processed is available at <a href="https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser/blocklists/">stoutner.com</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Privacy Browser has two additional blocklists,
+ one called <a href="https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser/blocklists/ultraprivacy/">UltraPrivacy</a> that blocks trackers that EasyPrivacy allows,
+ and the other that blocks all third-party requests.
+ A request is only considered third-party if the base domain of the request is different than the base domain of the URL.
+ For example, if <code>www.website.com</code> loads a picture from <code>images.website.com</code>,
+ this is not blocked as a third-party request because they both share the same base domain of <code>website.com</code>.
+ Blocking all third-party requests increases privacy, but this blocklist is disabled by default because it breaks a large number of websites.</p>
+ </body>
+</html>
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