78105 - Pattern-matching based image blocking

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78104

(Core :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Ari]

It would be really cool if, in addition to being able to block all images
orginating from a given server, Mozilla could block all images from URLs
matching a given pattern. On many sites, ad images originate from the same
server as the non-ad images, so when the user tries to block the ad images, he
or she ends up blocking the non-ad images as well. It would be nice if Mozilla,
like iCab, could be set to block images originating from, for example, all URLs
containing the pattern "/Ads/" thereby allowing to only block the ad images on
the image server. This feature could also be useful if the ad banners are using
Akamai to serve their images because although the originating server is an
Akamai server, the URL still often contains a pattern matching the name of the
ad provider. It would be even cooler, though not absolutely necessary, if this
matching supported regular expressions.

Comment 1

[Stephen Walker]

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

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

verified