187940 - RFE: Option to block images from a path, i.e., http://www.site.com/ads/images/

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78104

(Core :: Graphics: Image Blocking, enhancement)

Description

[Squeak Man 2k1]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Block images from server is useful. But what if the site is smart and keeps all
ads on its own server? Solution - block images from a path. While not perfect,
it would knock out about 90% of the junk images I see because most of the images
are organized into different directories on the site.

i.e. slashdot stores banners in http://ssads.osdn.com/banner/ . could we block
that entire directory? also, newscientist stores images in the following
directory, http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ads/ (plus other
subdirectories for different companies).

You cannot just block images from the site on certain sites because the site may
become [un|less]usable. Let's get the "root" of the problem :)

This feature would be cool and that's "the bottom line because Stone Cold said so!"

 - Lloyd -

P.S. Please consider this!!! Please, please, please!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a site that uses banners
2. look at the banners
3. get annoyed

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

this is already filed....

Comment 2

[Squeak Man 2k1]

dup of which bug # ? shouldn't that be referenced? maybe i just cannot see
bugzilla correctly, sorry.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78104 ***

Comment 4

[Wesha]

v.