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#1188 How to Block All Images
This is not a bug report, sorry, I couldn't find a better place to ask this, so here goes:
I am trying to find a way to block ALL images from being loaded. So in privoxy's action file I tried to create a block rule that looked like this: "*.PNG" to block all PNG images. But that didn't work. I know how to block only one image with an absolute path no problem, but am not able to block all images. Could anyone please help me? Thanks a bunch!
A URL pattern that blocks all URLs ending with png would be:
/.*\.png
However there are of course other endings commonly used for images and
additionally you should probably block based on the Content-Type header from
the server and based on the Accept header from the client.
Blocking 100% of the image requests isn't possible with Privoxy, unless you
implement a white-list of URLs known not be images. This isn't a realistic
approach, though, as it doesn't scale.
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