FAQ

Welcome to Distract Me Not FAQ! you'll find below a list of the most frequently asked questions with the appropriate answers/solutions.

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Frequently Asked Questions

• What's the purpose of the combined mode?
• How to allow iframes/embeds like youtube embedded videos?
• How to prevent users from disabling the extension?

📌. What's the purpose of the combined mode?

The combined mode saw the light as a fix to the issue #25, so as a short answer, when the combined mode is enabled the whitelist works as an exclusion list for the blacklist, but to make it more clear, let's take the following example:

• You have a blacklist with the following domain name pattern: *.youtube.com.
• But still you want to allow the accounts.youtube.com domain name.

Possible solutions:

• One of the possible solution could be to replace the *.youtube.com pattern with www.youtube.com on your blacklist, but the pitfall of this solution is that domain names like m.youtube.com for example won't be blocked unless manually added to the blacklist.
• Here comes the combined mode to the rescue, by using it, you're telling the blocking process to block all links that matches with the *.youtube.com pattern in the blacklist, with a single or multiple exception(s) which are the links/patterns on the whitelist: accounts.youtube.com/*.

📌. How to allow iframes/embeds like youtube embedded videos?

Go to the blocking settings & change the Frames type value from All frames to Main frames, otherwise you can refer to the solution proposed here.

📌. How to prevent users from disabling the extension?

Go to the password settings, enable password protection & set a password, then check the Block access to extensions page option & hit Save.