1446243 - (tp-yellowlist) Add "yellowlisting" to Tracking Protection

Status: NEW

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, enhancement, P3)

Description

[(no longer active)]

Privacy Badger yellowlists platform.twitter.com and syndication.twitter.com to make twitter embeds work.  Is it possible we do the same?

Comment 2

[François Marier [:francois]]

(In reply to :Ehsan Akhgari from comment #0)
> Privacy Badger yellowlists platform.twitter.com and syndication.twitter.com
> to make twitter embeds work.  Is it possible we do the same?

We don't currently have a yellowlist in TP and since Twitter presumably uses these domains for tracking I assume we don't want them removed from the Disconnect list entirely.

Comment 3

[(no longer active)]

Is there a bug on file for adding a yellowlist like feature?  It seems like doing that could address this kind of breakage.

Comment 4

[François Marier [:francois]]

(In reply to :Ehsan Akhgari from comment #3)
> Is there a bug on file for adding a yellowlist like feature?  It seems like
> doing that could address this kind of breakage.

I don't think so. It's been talked about a lot in the context of extending TP to have a "softer" mode, but it's never been prioritized or fleshed out.

Comment 5

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Note as of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425075 we will have separate block-lists available for social trackers.

Comment 6

[Asif Youssuff]

FWIW, Brave appears to do a form of "yellow listing" -- see https://brave.com/script-blocking-exceptions-update/ for an overview and rationale.

Comment 9

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

I will be migrating sub-bugs over here which could be fixed by yellowlisting, but may also have other work-arounds which are a bit more acceptable:

• providing a placeholder interface for the user to opt into viewing content which may be tracked
• proxying or locally-hosting such content, to avoid tracking where possible