Mitchell Stoltz wrote:
> 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.
As Ben pointed out, there's lots of other filtering proxies (I use
JunkBuster) to perform some of the above tasks. But as Mozilla already
has quite some of the above capability (changing UA string, blocking
popups, cookie management, image blocking) it would be nice to
incoporate two other features so that you don't need proxies anymore:
- banner ad (site) blocking based on regexps (that's more powerful than
the current "block images from this server"). Like junkbuster, I'd like
to have regexps on entire URLs
- Removal of referrer header
Together with the other stuff that's either already there or was being
discussed lately in here, it would make Mozilla a browser with a
web-filter built-in. I'd be very much looking forward to this.
I'd rather view this as an RFE, but you asked for it ... ;-)
Cheers, Nils
