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Q: I'm worried by the fact some sites require the akamai.net domain to be whitelisted. I'd prefer not to allow it everywhere, but only on some parent sites I trust. How can I do it? __ A: You can use ABE to this effect, by adding the following rule to your NoScript Options|Advanced|ABE USER ruleset: Site .akamai.net __ Accept INCLUSION from SELF++ ___ Accept INCLUSION from .trusted-site1.com .trusted-site2.com trusted-site3.com ____ Deny ___ Notice the leading dot "." before domains, which is syntactic sugar for site.com *.site.com, i.e. a domain and its subdomains. ____ It should also be noted that, independently from this rule, external scripts are never loaded from pages which don't belong to a whitelisted site, hence no malicious website you didn't explicitly whitelisted could execute scripts from akamai.net anyway. ___

Cookies aren't always reliable and sometimes a small change corrupts them. If you use an ad-blocking plug-in like AdBlock Plus for Firefox, add a new filter with the following format: http://clients*.google.com/complete/search?* A filter that will disable Google Suggest in Google Video and YouTube has the following format: http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?* Here's a more general filter that should work for all international domains: http://*.google.*/complete/search?*

Tired of online ads like I am? I have Firefox’s Adblock Plus and Safari AdBlock installed on my computer, but it becomes rather annoying to keep installing these applications on my multiple machines as well as every time I format them. To make ad blocking simpler I opted to use OpenDNS to block ads on the DNS level. To make this hack work you must configure your router to use OpenDNS’s servers (trust me you will want to do this anyway – their servers are FAST!) by following the OpenDNS tutorials. Secondly you must signup for a free OpenDNS account so you can setup network filters.