Re: Advanced features filtering
Alan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel |
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 02:47:07AM +0200, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > If I may take the filtering further I'd like to outline an interesting > IMHO idea: to take all kinds of features of the browser (images, > animated images, popups, CSS fonts, CSS colors, cookies, Java, > JavaScript, Flash, proxy, various installed plugins, and so on) and to > be able to apply(allow or deny) them to URL's based on wildcard masks > (perhaps also by MIME type of the targeted resource/URL?). By wildcards > I mean"http://*.ads.dom/images/*". Something along the lines of the Ad > Block for Mozilla, but applied to much more than just images. Something like this is probably better accomplished by a system that is designed to do that, such as a proxy. I have squid and bannerfilter running and see hardly any banner ads anymore. While it would be nice to have this flexibility in galeon, I'm wondering if the extra bloat would be a Bad Thing, especially with other options available. alan -- Alan <[email protected]> - http://arcterex.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en