150224 - pref to disable 1x1 size image requests

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 140238

(Core :: Graphics: Image Blocking, enhancement)

Description

[Justin Pryzby]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020525
BuildID:    2002052507

While confirming my email address (following the link in the email), for  new
account, I noticed that the ad was loading slowly.  Then I noticed that it was
watching me.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Sign up for an ebay account.
2.Watch the ad load slowly.
3.Look at the page source.

Actual Results:  I noticed that MS was watching me.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have an option to block images of size 1.

<img
src="https://www.commission-junction.com/Track/receive.dll?AMOUNT=00.00&CID=672817&OID=57651579&TYPE=LEAD&KEEP=NO&METHOD=IMG"
width="1" height="1">

<img src
="https://conversions.bfast.com/conversions?bfmid=37920209&bfoid=57651579&bfpid=registration&bfprice=0.00&bfqty=1&bfmtype=registration&bfcur=USD&bfrand=5568&bfdate=20020608&bftime=101742&bftimezone=PST&bfaction=O"
width="1" height="1">

<img
SRC='https://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/bk/1065-3899-1801-0?Conf-Int=1&Unique_User_ID=57651579'
BORDER=0 HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=1>

<img
SRC='https://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/bk/711-518-1801-0?Conf=1&Unique_User_ID=57651579'
BORDER=0 HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=1>

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

img[height="1"][width="1"] { display: none }

in userContent.css

Comment 2

[John Levon]

Well I can't find any RFE for exactly this ...

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Image blocking

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 140238?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

certainly dependent

Comment 6

[Henrik Gemal]

dupe or wontfix...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140238 ***