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About WhitelistsWhat is a "Whitelist"? A Whitelist is a list of websites that lives on your computer that you want RescueTime to pay attention to. If you visit any web site that is NOT on that list, your activity will be sent without the URL information and will appear in RescueTime as an entity called "Other Web Sites". Why would I want to use a RescueTime Whitelist? Reason #1 is privacy. Some users don't want all of their web browsing data being sent to RescueTime, which is fine with us. If you really only care about how you use a few different web sites, whitelists are a great option. Reason #2 is noise. The average RescueTime user visits 40 or more web sites per day, with many of them being new web sites. Having a list of hundreds of web sites (many of which were visited for 60 seconds or less) might be way more detail than your interested in. How does the Whitelist work? A Whitelist is a simple text file that lives on your computer. It can be conveniently accessed by clicking the "Edit" button under the "Privacy" tab of your RescueTime Data Collector App. Editing this text file is simple. You just add one web site address to each line. RescueTime will look for any match to the address. So, for example, if you added "google.com" to your Whitelist, RescueTime would send data for "www.google.com" AND "mail.google.com". If you added "www.google.com" to your Whitelist, it would send data for "www.google.com" but would send "mail.google.com" time as "Other Web Sites" (just like any other site that isn't on the Whitelist). Because many websites can use different 3rd level domains from time to time, we recommend not using the "www" unless you're sure that's what you want to do. If you're interested, you can add a "#" before any line to leave comments in your Whitelist. Here is an example of a Whitelist: # This line is a comment. RescueTime will ignore it. |
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