Check if connection actually happend (feature request)

[SteveBell]

Here's the use case: Let's say I use Little Snitch (on OS X) to block everything Facebook related (facebook.com, facebook.net, connect.facebook.net, fbcdn.net, ...) then those connections would still appear in Collusion.

But since they are blocked in Little Snitch it's impossible that they acutally happened. Then it would be very cool if collusion was able to check which connections really happened. Then I'd be able to add more and more filters to Little Snitch and at the end of the day have less tracking sites being able to follow me.

What do you guys think?

PS: Kudos to you and the original collusion developers! Great tool.

[oldestlivingboy]

The Collusion for Chrome graph accounts for blocking that happens inside the browser (e.g., by another extension) but not blocking that happens outside the browser (e.g., by a firewall). I definitely get the usefulness of handling the second case, though the implementation will be nontrivial (we’ll have to rescan the DOM after the “load” event fires).

[SteveBell]

Thanks for the reply. Would be awesome to have this feature.

[jf]

Perhaps one way of handling this would be to allow for you to be able to tell the extension what stuff has been blocked already? I forget which firefox ad busting extension has this - but you can type in hostnames that u want to block.

This functionality would actually be great if implemented. Then chrollusion would turn into more than just a "shock-and-awe" extension. It would serve as an "IDS" as well!!!