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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Ad-block in Konqueror
From:       Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-04 23:41:28
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Nice idea, just make it disabled at default setup (enabled in compile, 
disabled in config).. 

You don't want to piss of all the linux web sites that living by ads 
revenues... (slashdot, linuxtoday, OSDN, sourceforge, etc)

Hetz

On Saturday 05 January 2002 01:32, Marc Paradise wrote:
> I'm looking  for an opinion - do you think it would be a good idea to add
> ad-blocking to Konqueror?  I'm interested in doing this, but I don't want
> to get started if the KDE community thinks its a bad idea.
>
> The way I would like to implement it is as follows:
> 1) User can right click on any graphic; the context menu would contain a
> selection labeled (something like) :
> block graphics from this source'
>
> 2) Selecting this will add the source url/ip address to a table of
> 'filtered' addresses
>
> 3) User will have a new component to maintain these lists and fine tune the
> settings as Settings dialog/Web Browsing/->ad blocking tab.  This will
> allow the user to manually exclude (or remove from exclusion) graphic
> providers.
>
> 4) When loading graphics from web sites, Konqueror will first check to
> ensure that the source address is not on the filtered address list.  If it
> is, it will load a 1-pixel transparent gif.  If it is not, the graphic will
> load as usual.
>
> I haven't explained this very well - the idea is still rough - but I think
> I've gotten the idea across.  Feedback will be appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>
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