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How to get past "uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading"

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Raymond Hill edited this page Nov 27, 2017 · 14 revisions

When a domain is blacklisted, uMatrix will block all network requests to the remote server, including the network requests for the root documents:

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Most of the time it is likely a site blacklisted as a result of subscribing to one of the hosts files in the Hosts files pane.

If you really want to be able to pull web pages from the remote server, it's just a matter of modifying your ruleset appropriately.

Open the popup panel:

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Then just remove the blacklist rule by clicking on it:

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Important: Note the removing of the rule is done from the local scope, there is no need to remove this rule from the global scope.

Now for a refresh of the page:

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Result -- the page now loaded fine:

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If you want the bypass of the block rule to be permanent, don't forget to use the padlock to persist the rule. Though in the example above, un-blacklisting google-analytics.com merely allowed a the redirection to another server to succeed. In such case, you will have to persist your rule from the My rules pane in the dashboard.

uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type.

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