[ Adding dillo-dev back to Cc: ] On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 04:15:49PM +0300, John Found wrote:

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:49:33 +0100 Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:

Hi there,

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The image link is /!avatar/nestava?v= which returns a redirection.

Well, yes, I forgot about the redirection. It is because "anon.png" is the fallback image for the users that have no avatar image set in their account.

Yes. If you wanted to change your site to make it look prettier in old-and-current-dillo, you could change the piece that sends that redirection to instead send the content of the image. It probably is not worth doing that, though.

But I am not very agree with the assumption from the FAQ, that "These have a strong tendency to be advertisements."

I suspect that the FAQ describes the author's thoughts at the time, and describes the state of current-dillo.

At first it depends whether it is redirection to the same domain or the 3rd party ad-provider.

If you can encourage someone to design and implement the code to handle that, I expect it will be welcomed either into stock-dillo or as an external patch.

At second, such fragmentary "ad-blocking" will not stop the ads at all, but combined with the Dillo not finished state, it looks more like a bug that like an ad-block effort.

I'd consider it "convenience" rather than "ad-block effort"; but I already expect many web pages not to be "fully functional" with a browser which doesn't do exactly what they want, so I accept it. Cheers, f -- Francis Daly francis at daoine.org