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Sites and Tunnels

Sites and Tunnels is where you give Sift the cookies and tunnels it downloads with. To open it, go to Settings > Sites and Tunnels.

Come here to sign Sift in to a Site with your browser’s cookies, or to send a Site’s downloads through a tunnel. Sift supports WireGuard tunnels and runs each one with its tunnel client, wireproxy.

The Sites and Tunnels pane in Settings

On this pane

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The pane draws these groups, in this order:

  • Cookies: the cookies your browser already holds for a Site, so Sift can download what the Site shows only when you’re signed in. Edit cookies adds, replaces or deletes them.
  • Tunnels: your WireGuard tunnels. Import a tunnel takes a .conf file from your provider: drop it, or Choose a file, give it a Name, and choose Import tunnel.
  • Site tunnels: which tunnel each Site uses. Default for every Site is what a Site uses when you haven’t chosen. Choose a tunnel for each Site sets one Site at a time.
  • Swap tunnels: the tunnel a swap goes through. A swap never uses your own connection.
  • Supported Sites: every Site Sift recognizes a link from, and how well each works. Show all Sites opens the whole list.

What the Supported Sites marks mean

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  • Supported: tested and working.
  • Routing only: not officially supported, but usually works through a tunnel you added.
  • One link at a time: a single link works, but not a whole profile or channel.
  • Required: nothing downloads until cookies are added.
  • Partial: public content downloads without cookies; some needs them.
  • Not required: everything downloads without cookies.

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Tunnel for joining a swap

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The tunnel your side of a swap goes through when you join one.