Privacy enthusiasts, take a look at
http://spywaresucks.org/prox/index.html
it's software that runs regexps on incoming web pages. The author has
written regexps that do all kinds of interesting content filtration:
popup blocking, banner ad blocking, filtering various types of annoying
content, and cookie filters (by filtering http headers and/or Javascript).
Could we incorporate any of this guy's ideas into Mozilla? Please look
through his list of filters and let me know of any you'd particularly
like to see implemented in Mozilla.
Should we use a mechanism like his? I think we can do him one better by
tying into the HTML parser and the security manager - for example, his
regexps can remove onUnload handlers, but we can allow them to run while
preventing them from opening windows.
Thoughts?
-Mitch
