210255 - Flash-based and IFRAME banner ads not blocked by Mozilla's image blocker

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 94035

(Core :: Graphics: Image Blocking, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Granade]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

Many sites now use Flash-based and IFRAME-based bammer ads to bypass common
ad-blocking software. Mozilla included. I suggest that the Mozilla image blocker
base be expanded to include IFRAME and EMBED/OBJECT tags. The referenced URL
uses IFRAME ads.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a site with Flash or IFRAME ads.
2. Attempt to right-click the ad and select "Block Images From This Server".
Actual Results:  
Flash ads: Macromedia's proprietary menu shows instead of Mozilla's context menu.
IFRAME ads: Same menu shown as if right-clicking any other frame.

Expected Results:  
Flash ads: under Tools > Image Manager, shown an option "Block Flash Movies On
This Page..."
IFRAME ads: under Tools > Image Manager, shown an option "Block Floating Frames
On This Page..." as well as add a similar option to the page context menu for
the floating frame.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22687 ***

Comment 2

[Chris Granade]

Er... I don't quite understand how this is a dupe of 22687 myself...

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Maybe a typo.  It is a duplicate of bug 94035, though.

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