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Right now, the software prioritizes the whitelist over the blacklist. Pretty logical, otherwise a whitelist would be useless.
Whenever I use the whitelist, it's mostly to unblock a certain subpage of a blocked website. Though, to whitelist a site, it's nice to have a less strict protection then fully stopping the plan.
The issue with this is, you can whitelist the entire site you just blocked. If I wanted to whitelist a certain Youtube channel, or specific part of a news site, it's just as easy to just whitelist the whole site. 

My suggestion: Make it so that the whitelist doesn't overrule the blacklist if a page from the blacklist is whitelisted. 

If reddit.com is on the blacklist, make it so that reddit.com, www. reddit.com, https://reddit.com and https://wwww.reddit.com can't be whitelisted, or can't overrule the blacklist.

I don't know whether it's possible to easily implement this, but it would be pretty useful to me.
(07-04-2020, 03:39 PM)Jeroen Wrote: [ -> ]Right now, the software prioritizes the whitelist over the blacklist. Pretty logical, otherwise a whitelist would be useless.
Whenever I use the whitelist, it's mostly to unblock a certain subpage of a blocked website. Though, to whitelist a site, it's nice to have a less strict protection then fully stopping the plan.
The issue with this is, you can whitelist the entire site you just blocked. If I wanted to whitelist a certain Youtube channel, or specific part of a news site, it's just as easy to just whitelist the whole site. 

My suggestion: Make it so that the whitelist doesn't overrule the blacklist if a page from the blacklist is whitelisted. 

If reddit.com is on the blacklist, make it so that reddit.com, www. reddit.com, https://reddit.com and https://wwww.reddit.com can't be whitelisted, or can't overrule the blacklist.

I don't know whether it's possible to easily implement this, but it would be pretty useful to me.

Hello there, Jeroen. It's been a while and we hope you're doing well.

Just want to check if you're able to look and/or create a request for this here: https://focusme.com/feature-requests/?search=look

If not yet, we're encouraging you to do so. That way we can also check with other users' thoughts on this. 

Our developers will assess its feasibility and the number of similar requests then take a call on the development. Smile
I was also struggling with the listing issue. Thanks for providing very good documentation and information to the site. 
I was also having trouble with the listing problem. We appreciate you giving the site such excellent information and documentation.


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The listing problem was something I encountered as well. I appreciate the thoroughness with which you've documented this site.
(03-15-2023, 03:25 AM)nidleatt Wrote: [ -> ]The listing problem was something I encountered as well. I appreciate the thoroughness with which you've documented this site.

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(03-15-2023, 03:25 AM)nidleatt Wrote: [ -> ]The listing problem was something I encountered as well. I appreciate the thoroughness with which you've documented this site.

I also often encountered the leaflet problem, but on this forum I found a lot of useful information that makes my work easier!
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I may be misinterpreting because I'm not a very experienced user, but I use a weekly plan with a few daily tweaks that block everything to make me get out of bed and get things done.
(08-22-2024, 05:01 PM)Giusepnston Wrote: [ -> ]I may be misinterpreting because I'm not a very experienced user, but I use a weekly plan with a few daily tweaks that block everything to make me get out of bed and get things done.
Hi there! 

Glad that's it's working and helping you get things done! Would you mind sharing your secret? Like the plan you have?

Cheers! 

Ryan

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