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Subject:    [privoxy-users] [ ijbswa-Support Requests-1151560 ] Why are blocked
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Support Requests item #1151560, was opened at 2005-02-25 00:51
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> Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Manuel Nickschas (sputnick)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Why are blocked banners (checkerboard) still clickable?

Initial Comment:
Hi,

I have been using Privoxy for a while, and I am quite happy with it, but there is \
something I do not quite understand: If it blocks banners, i.e. replaces them with \
the checkerboard pattern (or blank or whatever is set in the configuration), the area \
remains still clickable. This is especially annoying if I have ads and banners \
replaced by the blank graphics, because then I get invisible ads on screen, but \
clicks on them still take me there.

This results in me clicking more ads than I ever did before I started using Privoxy \
;-) Now I'm sure that can be tweaked somewhere, but I did not find the setting? Can \
somebody help me out?

Thanks,
-- Manuel

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Comment By: iWantToKeepAnon (iwanttokeepanon)
Date: 2005-04-06 10:33

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Think of the process.  The browser downloads some HTML, parses it.  Then 
farms off a bunch of additional requests for CSS, images, JS, etc...

Privoxy is blocking the secondary request for the image.  At this point privoxy 
can not read or modify the HTML.  To eliminate the link means writing a 
filter instead.  But not all images needing blocked are in anchor tags.  That 
makes writing an effective filter very difficult.  And since image URLs can be 
relative, you'd have a very hard time writing good regexps.

It comes down to which way you attack the problem, and privoxy (and 
junkbusters) choose to filter the actual request instead of modifying the 
HTML.  But, thanks to GPL softward, you have the freedom to try to change 
that choice.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2005-04-06 02:00

Message:
Logged In: NO 

The link should probably be rewritten to point to something useful, such as a screen \
that allows you to fine-tune the filtering settings.

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