Lightbeam discarding blocked site list

[CharlesWB3]

I spent 2-3 weeks researching 3rd party sites and blocked 100+ marketing/advertising sites. Then I exported/saved everything to lightbeamData.json. Then one day, LB discarded all my blocked sites and put me back to square 1. Now I don't want to start blocking sites again, if LB is just going to discard all my work. I can't find how to import/reload my lightbeamData.json to recover my blocked site list. Can you help, or should I just disable and remove Lightbeam?

[CharlesWB3]

I spent 2-3 weeks researching 3rd party sites and blocked 100+ marketing/advertising sites. Then I exported/saved everything to lightbeamData.json. Then one day, LB discarded all my blocked sites and put me back to square 1. Now I don't want to start blocking sites again, if LB is just going to discard all my work. I can't find how to import/reload my lightbeamData.json to recover my blocked site list. Can you help, or should I just disable and remove Lightbeam?

[fmarier]

Hi Charles, I'm sorry to hear this. Lightbeam isn't supposed to discard your blocked sites. I'm not sure what happened (probably a bug) but I don't know that we can recover it, unfortunately.

If you are interested in researching and building up a list of sites to block I would suggest instead the following:

• enable tracking protection in Firefox
• report any tracking/advertising sites that aren't blocked by tracking protection to Disconnect so that they can get added to the list

Alternatively, if you want to keep the list to yourself and have it take effect immediately, you can take a look at the NoScript or RequestPolicy add-ons.