"Gray" Listing is blocking sites instead of neither allowing nor blocking.

[ghost]

I have sites set to what I believe is gray listed(neither allowed or blocked) by default, but they are showing as blocked, i.e. the page shows ____ blocked by µMatrix and red lines. Should it not at least display the site text if it is gray listed and not red listed/blocked? Additionally if I set say images as allowed in 1st-party it still blocks the entire site.

To get the functionality that I'm expecting, having just migrated from HTTPSWITCHBOARD, I have to allow first party sites and then block everything but images. But this ends up requiring a lot of work as 1st-party is inherited by the domain, so that even if I enable the domain I have to then click each request type to allow.

[gorhill]

blocked by µMatrix and red lines

Did you remove all the rules manually in the "My rules" tab? There is a rule in there which is important, and removing it will cause the symptom you describe:

* * doc allow

This rule applies to the root documents. If you remove it, all root documents will be blocked as you describe. It cannot be toggled from the popup matrix, as there is only one such request per page, thus pointless to have it take space in the matrix.

[gorhill]

Ok, I've hard-coded the * * doc allow rule into the matrix filtering engine, as this is the second occurrence of a user deleting it (other occurrence: #53). The one appearing in "My rules" can be deleted, but the one hardcoded will serve as fall back in case this happens.

[ghost]

I had not edited the rules (My Rules) beyond changing stuff in the matrix window, but * * doc allow did not exist... Adding it fixed the issue. thanks.