Enabling allow and deny rules to top-domain only

[terapty]

Prerequisites

• I performed a cursory search of the issue tracker to avoid opening a duplicate issue

  • Your issue may already be reported.
  • I also searched the existing issues at https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues

• This is not a support issue or a question

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• I tried to reproduce the issue when...

  • uMatrix extension is wholly disabled or not installed
  • uMatrix is the only extension
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  • using a new, unmodified browser profile

• I am running the latest version of uMatrix

• I checked the documentation to understand that the issue I report is not a normal behavior

• I used the logger to rule out that the issue is caused by my ruleset

Description

I'd like to be able to apply a rule only to the top-domain (or a sub-domain excluding descendants). This is more of a feature request. I am aware that the issue I describe is documented as normal behavior (I think in the "popup panel" part) and I was wondering if there is any technical, ethical (or otherwise) reason to this behavior and if a change could be considered. There are many cases in which I would like to allow for example a script from the top-domain to run without allowing sub-domain scripts to run (and I can't think of any examples in which denying top-domain elements without denying sub-domain elements would be useful, but I'm sure there are), this would help in enforcing a true "block all/allow exceptionally" policy.

A specific URL where the issue occurs

NA

Steps to Reproduce

1. Allow/deny a top-domain element (script, xhr...)
2. All sub-domains' element get white/blacklisted

Ruleset

NA

Supporting evidence

NA

Your environment

• uMatrix version: 1.4.0
• Browser Name and version: Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical 79.0 (64-bit)
• Operating System and version: Ubuntu Linux 5.3.0-62-generic

[gorhill]

Duplicate of gorhill/uMatrix#584.

I refused such request in the past, this is the equivalent of asking me a grand rewrite uMatrix.