Re: Allow blocking of web bugs on trusted pages
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:23 pm
It's quite pointless, since once scripting is enabled there are several ways to "phone back home" (<OBJECT>,<SCRIPT>,<EMBED>,<LINK>,<VIDEO>,<AUDIO> and I may miss some) other than plain old <IMG> and you can tell for sure if it's a web bug or not before the repsonse comes back (then it's too late).
That's why Ghostery alerts you about web bugs, but cannot block them: they're unblockable, unless you impose some draconian cross-request policies which may break a lot of things.
The Request Policy could be mean to implement them, and the soon to be released ABE could be another.
That's why Ghostery alerts you about web bugs, but cannot block them: they're unblockable, unless you impose some draconian cross-request policies which may break a lot of things.
The Request Policy could be mean to implement them, and the soon to be released ABE could be another.