tumpio/requestcontrol

a few questions regarding usage

coldbootinitheart opened this issue · 2 comments

coldbootinitheart commented

How exactly is requestcontrol different from tools specializing in url cleaning like CleanUrls (apart from being more versatile that is)? requestcontrol does not seem to be filtering gclid and dclid (google ad tracking parameters) which CleanUrls seems to have no problem doing. I found this tool because CleanUrls is not flexible enough for my needs, however requestcontrol seems to have lot less filters compared to other url cleaner tools. Is it by design (blocking, filtering expected to be done manually by the user?) or are the filter lists work-in-progress? Also can it clean etag headers?

eleius commented

Also can it clean etag headers?

I'd like to know this as well. I use Clearurls and would like to switch to Request Control, but I don't know if I need to complement it with other addons to achieve the same results (e.g. to block eTag tracking).

rusty-snake commented

How cares about etags?
No RC can not clean etag headers. And it should not get such a feature IMHO. RC can manipulate URLs in a very powerful way and that's all it should do. Manipulating headers can be done in a other extension (e.g. Header Editor).

Unix philosophy:

  1. Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".

Is it by design (blocking, filtering expected to be done manually by the user?) or are the filter lists work-in-progress?

Both.

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