Wilcards in White/Blacklists

[an0n981]

In White/Blacklists the wildcards () don't function the way wildcards usually do.
If I whitelist for example /sdcard/folder1/ anything in folder1 should be whitelisted. Howevever, if the destination is more than 1 subfolder away from folder1 (i.e. /sdcard/folder1/x/y) the wildcard rule does not apply.
The same goes for domains where *.google.com should also block abc.123.google.com

I hope this makes sense

[M66B]

How do you propose to solve this in a for everybody transparent way?

[M66B]

Please not that there would be a significant performance impact for checking multiple levels, so that is not an option.

[an0n981]

If checking multiple levels is not an option then I am all out of ideas :( Since that is exactly what wildcards are for

[Cerberus-tm]

In theory, you could allow a user to switch between two whitelist/blacklist modes:

1. Static but recursive: the list of whitelisted files is only updated when you tap a button in Xprivacy. So when a new file is created in a subfolder, the whitelist will not know about it, until you go to the whitelist settings again to update the list.
2. Live but superficial: only the upper folder is checked for files to be whitelisted, but it happens every time the application tries to access files.

Or perhaps a combination of these modes. But I'm not sure this should have priority... I don't think it would matter to me, for now.

[M66B]

I see no feasible solution to fix this, so I am setting this issue to won't fix.

[Cerberus-tm]

I completely agree and understand.

[M66B]

I will see what I can do again.

[M66B]

Test version:
https://crowd.xprivacy.eu/XPrivacy_2.1.12-6.apk

[M66B]

This version should shown one level of folders more:
https://crowd.xprivacy.eu/XPrivacy_2.1.13-4.apk

[an0n981]

This new version works great, but it may cause issues on devices with small screens. I just had a popup that took up the whole screen on my note 2 with a large screen

[M66B]

The on demand dialog is scrollable.
You can try it by rotating your device 90 degrees.

[an0n981]

Learn something new every day