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Why did Lightbeam discard my 100+ blocked site list? I don't want to go to the trouble of blocking sites again if LB is just going to discard them again.

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Over a period of about 3 weeks, I researched and blocked over 100 sites with LightBeam. Webpages loaded faster and far fewer tracking cookies were created by marketing/advertising sites. I exported/saved my work in a lightbeamData.json file. Then Lightbeam discarded all my blocked sites and I'm back at the beginning, because I don't see a way to restore/import the saved lightbeamData.json file. But I'm not foolish enough to go through weeks of blocking sites again, if Lightbeam is just going to throw away my hard work.

Over a period of about 3 weeks, I researched and blocked over 100 sites with LightBeam. Webpages loaded faster and far fewer tracking cookies were created by marketing/advertising sites. I exported/saved my work in a lightbeamData.json file. Then Lightbeam discarded all my blocked sites and I'm back at the beginning, because I don't see a way to restore/import the saved lightbeamData.json file. But I'm not foolish enough to go through weeks of blocking sites again, if Lightbeam is just going to throw away my hard work.

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Are you sure it was Lightbeam? Contact it's support.

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I'll be happy to, if someone will tell me who supports it and how to contact them. This forum is the closest I found to an entity which might support LB.

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Lightbeam for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam/

You can find the links one page down on the right.