Re: Advanced features filtering

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:10:38 -0800 Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

I should point out that ad blocking would be just one of the targets.
Second, a proxy can do less than the browser can. Hmm... or can it. You
may have a point here. Come to think of it, all the features I described
are after all Web resources. You should be able to analyse most of the
things I mentioned without help from Galeon. Integration still holds
some benefits, though, such as filtering based on plugin.

--
Ciprian Popovici


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