[ ijbswa-Bugs-3615305 ] deanimate-gifs often doesn't work

SourceForge.net <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:16:46 -0800
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Bugs item #3615305, was opened at 2014-01-11 18:08
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Category: funct: filtering
Group: version 3.0.21
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Duplicate
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Keith Bowes (zooplah)
>Assigned to: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Summary: deanimate-gifs often doesn't work

Initial Comment:
When I started using Privoxy, of course one of the first things I did was disabling animated GIFs, except on .freepascal.org, as I love that racing cheetah.  Though, recently (as in the last few years) I've noticed that a lot of (meaning just about all) animated GIFs on Buzzfeed, Google+, etc. are making it through, and they seem to be getting only more and more used.  I tested and removing the exception of .freepascal.org blocks that cheetah, but the annoying GIFs still make it through.  I don't know enough about the image format or how to deanimate them to send a patch or anything.  Sorry.

An example in a Buzzfeed article I was reading today:
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr02/9/23/anigif_enhanced-buzz-19853-1389327020-5.gif

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>Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2014-01-15 11:16

Message:
Thanks for taking the time to report this.

GIF deanimation is already known to be broken, though:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2818198&group_id=11118&atid=111118

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