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Thanks. Yeah, telling apart websites from web apps is a pain. It may be clear to a web engineer which URLs might work and which URLs almost certainly won't, but to a normal user that's far from obvious.

A blocklist sounds like a great idea. It would definitely help corner that case.

In NoScript.it, are you using an existing open source list or building one out?

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Yeah and then add to that the websites which are not apps but still break :-(

As for noscript.it, I'm not aware of any existing lists, I have a short hard coded list so far. If you start a list I'd happily use and contribute to it :-) On noscript.it I have an additional problem in that not all sites allow embedding into a iframe and some block the cloudflare proxy I use to get around that. I maintain another list for those pages, but it probably breaks for a lot of other pages also without any useful error message to the user.

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