On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:34:21 GMT
alister  wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:21:52 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>
> > Mike Tomlinson  writes:
> >> Richard Kettlewell  escribió:
> >>> it doesn’t cover all adverts.
> >>
> >> You can make your own additions using the click'n'drool web interface.
> >
> > I mean it inherently can’t cover all adverts. Anything embedded in a
> > page served by https is beyond what it can see. That would need browser
> > cooperation.
>
> that depends on if the image is referenced by ip address or a URL
> if a URL the browser still has to do another DNS lookup for the image
> (unless the image is hosted on the same server/URL as the original page,
> which is not how the advertising providers operate)

 There is another technique where the advert is inserted into the
HTML of the page on the server side - these ones are impossible to block.

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