In article <Kv7k8.42076$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TazMainiac
wrote:
[snip]
> What I really want is for Mozilla to support regular expression
> ad-banner blocking: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78104

that would indeed be very cool.

> Of course, the nice thing about the HOSTS file is that it
> blocks everything, cookies, web bugs (invisible gif's),
> etc.

you forgot redirected images... currently quite a few sites can evade the
filtering by using a URL of http://viewed.site/rd?http://ad.site/blah
and then having http://viewed.site/rd simply perform an HTTP redirect to
ad.site, which then serves the ad.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69486

-- 
michael

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