166760 - Additional privacy blocking options.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 94035

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Andrew Houghton]

Currently under Menu->Edit->Preferences->Privacy & Security->Images you can
block images from a site.  This is very useful for sites, such as
doubleclick.net.  However, a number of web pages are using a flash based
approach, like:

<iframe
src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/oreillynet.ds/javascriptart;pos=mega_javascriptart;sz=336x280;ord=1401181745?"
width="336" height="280" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
scrolling="no">
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.1"
src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/oreillynet.ds/javascriptart;abr=!ie;pos=mega_javascriptart;sz=336x280;ord=1401181745?"></script>
</iframe>
<noscript>
<a
href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/oreillynet.ds/javascriptart;abr=!ie;pos=mega_javascriptart;sz=336x280;ord=1401181745?"><img
src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/oreillynet.ds/javascriptart;abr=!ie;kw=pos=mega_javascriptart;sz=336x280;ord=1401181745?"
border="0" width="336" height="280" alt="Advertisement" /></a>
</noscript>

What is needed is a way for the user to specify in their preferences that you
should never *fetch* any content from a particular server.  This would apply for
IFRAME, OBJECT, EMBED, SCRIPT, IMG, LINK or any other tag that takes an href or
src attribute.

In addition it would be helpful to also the user to specify in their preferences
to disallow specific URL's to be blocked, in addtion to full site blocking.  For
example, the src attribute of an image on a web page I visited was:

http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&page=www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/international&pos=Middle&camp=nytnyt153&ad=DB-140_Final.gif&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enytimes%2Ecom%2Fservices%2Femail%2Femail%2Ehtml%23dealbook

So I really what to block any URL of the form:

http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html

But I don't want to block the entire site.

Another enhancement, is to allow an Add, Import, Export button on the dialog of
Menu->Edit->Preferences->Privacy & Security->Images.  This way users can build
and exchange kill lists.  Maybe you should change the "Images" preference name
to another preference name, if you decide to block any src or href attribute at
the site level.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Please search the list of most-frequent bugs before you file a new one. This is
duplicate #90.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94035 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Duplicates.

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