JS-like management for cookies and images

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RadoS
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JS-like management for cookies and images

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Hi devs,
I appreciate noScript very much.
Even though Firefox has built-in basic java-script & cookie handling and very unuseful image handling, it's not as convenient as that of noScript for java-script.
Like noScript for JS, I very much miss a similar interface for noCookies and noImages, i.e. default "deny", allow only white-list,
permanent or temp., with context menu listing all cookie and image sources for easy "whitelist" selection.

Can/will you add this noCookie and noImage functionality to noScript?

I know, noScript primarily targets technical security issues, but presently data/privacy security is becoming an issue, too, which could take a boost like java-script protection got from noScript, don't you think?
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tlu
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Re: JS-like management for cookies and images

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For cookie management several FF extensions are available. The best one is, IMHO, is Cookie Monster.

Regarding images, most of them contained in ads are already blocked by AdblockPlus and Noscript.
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RadoS
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Re: JS-like management for cookies and images

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I'll look into CookieMonster, thanks for the pointer.

However, AdblockPlus is not what I need, because it operates on blacklists.
If I have only a handful of sites where I _need_ the images, then I don't want to pay attention to any other sites' images whereever else I might go.
I don't need/ want even self-ads coming from the same server, which might not be blacklisted because they are not considered "spam-ads" by the AdblockPlus providers,
and I don't want to opt-out of spam for each individual case, but rather opt-in for required content images.

How does noScript help me with images, I didn't notice any controls related to images?
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Re: JS-like management for cookies and images

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Firefox supports default-deny plus a whitelist for image handling. Just uncheck Tools > Options > Content > Load images automatically and add exceptions for sites you want to allow.
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RadoS
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Re: JS-like management for cookies and images

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True, thanks, but that not as easy to use as noScript or Cookie Monster with "simple right click (on item)".
I've been pointed to Ghostery and Image Block. maybe they work like noScript, I'll have a look now.
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Re: JS-like management for cookies and images

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RadoS wrote:True, thanks, but that not as easy to use as noScript or Cookie Monster with "simple right click (on item)".
You're right. An easier way to do it than I mentioned earlier -- that's also built into Firefox -- is to right-click the image > View Image Info and then check Block Images from bad-site.com in the Image Info window that pops up.
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Re: JS-like management for cookies and images

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Right, but again that's not the desired whitelist but blacklist.
Setting "default deny images" to whitelist them would require to see where images would be (outlined somehow), but with default FF denied images are just invisible.
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Re: JS-like management for cookies and images

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Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.
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Re: JS-like management for cookies and images

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Thanks for CookieMonster, it does for cookies just what I need: a quick and comfortable access to the cookies permissions instead of going via cumbersome FF menus.

So... now I need an image handling like CookieMonster for cookies and noScript for JS...
I have no clue about add-ons coding, would it be easy to base of one of the 2 to make a noImage?
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