Re: About features for the (new) ad blocker

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Mario,

On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:13:04 +0200, Mario Sanchez Prada wrote:

> Recently, I started to take a look into the pending tasks in the 3.2
> roadmap for ephy [1] and grabbed the one about rewriting the ad 
> blocker,
> following the suggestions I've seen in [1]:

Great to hear you're working on this!

> My current opinion is:
>
> A. I wouldn't use that white/black listing thing from ephy as I'd 
> rather
> trust the a preconfigured list of filters like the one Midori uses 
> [4].
>
> B. Not sure about not giving the user any chance to configure the ad
> blocker. I think allowing the user at least to add new filters is 
> good.
>
> C. I would drop that and make sure that the list gets refreshed 
> whenever
> the extension is loaded. Don't see the point of the manual "update".

Agreed on all counts!

Of course, when you add a new filter, it should be loaded directly and 
not until after a restart.

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen