Re: Advanced features filtering

Alan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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