Re: Block Requests to specific domain?

[EE]

Gerry Hickman wrote:

Is it possible to prevent SeaMonkey making requests to a certain domain?
I know you can "block images" from a certain domain, but can you tell SM
to never make any kind of request to that domain?

e.g. a domain called ads.com, with servers, x.ads.com, y.ads.com

can you block any request to *.ads.com?

I did that kind of thing with an extension called URL n Extension Block. 
 You have to run it through the converter to get it to install in 
SeaMonkey.


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/url-n-extension-blockune-bl/

The converter:
http://addonconverter.fotokraina.com/

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Re: Block Requests to specific domain?

[Paul B. Gallagher]

WaltS48 wrote:


Be advised.


As to SeaMonkey and Thunderbird, things aren’t looking well there.
It’s doubtful that these will have noteworthy Web Extensions
support by November. In fact, it’s not even clear whether they plan
to support Web Extensions at all. And unlike with Firefox Mobile,
we cannot publish a different build for them (Addons.Mozilla.Org
only allows different builds per operating system, not per
application). So our users on SeaMonkey and Thunderbird will be
stuck with an outdated Adblock Plus version.


REF:




From what I can tell, ABP plans to switch to the new web extensions 
model, which is fine, but SM will not be ready by November. The fault is 
not at ABP, but here with us.


As for the threatened "outdated Adblock Plus version," what does that 
mean? Security issues? Probably not. Functionality issues? Perhaps. 
There's a continual "arms race" between web designers who want to bypass 
ABP and serve their ads to unwilling eyeballs and ad-block programmers 
who want to do us the great favor of blocking ads. It's not clear at all 
how long a gap there will be between the November switch to WE and SM's 
upgrade to the new WE model. A few weeks? Months? I can live with a 
slightly inferior ad blocker. Years? That's a problem.


For now, the OP can have six months of ad-free life if he wants it, 
perhaps more.


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Re: Block Requests to specific domain?

[Mr. Ed]

On 05/19/17 5:47 PM, Gerry Hickman wrote:
> Is it possible to prevent SeaMonkey making requests to a certain domain? I
> know you can "block images" from a certain domain, but can you tell SM to
> never make any kind of request to that domain?
>
> e.g. a domain called ads.com, with servers, x.ads.com, y.ads.com
>
> can you block any request to *.ads.com?
>
Use a 'hosts' file.
One can be found at http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ with instructions.

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Re: Block Requests to specific domain?

[Lee]

On 5/19/17, WaltS48  wrote:
> On 5/19/17 6:51 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>> Gerry Hickman wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to prevent SeaMonkey making requests to a certain
>>> domain? I know you can "block images" from a certain domain, but can
>>> you tell SM to never make any kind of request to that domain?
>>>
>>> e.g. a domain called ads.com, with servers, x.ads.com, y.ads.com
>>>
>>> can you block any request to *.ads.com?
>>
>> 
>>
>> Works with SeaMonkey too, though the page doesn't say so.
>>
>
> Be advised.
>
>> As to SeaMonkey and Thunderbird, things aren’t looking well there. It’s
>> doubtful that these will have noteworthy Web Extensions support by
>> November. In fact, it’s not even clear whether they plan to support Web
>> Extensions at all. And unlike with Firefox Mobile, we cannot publish a
>> different build for them (Addons.Mozilla.Org only allows different builds
>> per operating system, not per application). So our users on SeaMonkey and
>> Thunderbird will be stuck with an outdated Adblock Plus version.
>
>
> REF:
> 

https://www.privoxy.org/

trivially easy to block all requests to *.ads.com

Lee
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Re: Block Requests to specific domain?

[WaltS48]

On 5/19/17 6:51 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Gerry Hickman wrote:


Is it possible to prevent SeaMonkey making requests to a certain
domain? I know you can "block images" from a certain domain, but can
you tell SM to never make any kind of request to that domain?

e.g. a domain called ads.com, with servers, x.ads.com, y.ads.com

can you block any request to *.ads.com?




Works with SeaMonkey too, though the page doesn't say so.



Be advised.


As to SeaMonkey and Thunderbird, things aren’t looking well there. It’s 
doubtful that these will have noteworthy Web Extensions support by November. In 
fact, it’s not even clear whether they plan to support Web Extensions at all. 
And unlike with Firefox Mobile, we cannot publish a different build for them 
(Addons.Mozilla.Org only allows different builds per operating system, not per 
application). So our users on SeaMonkey and Thunderbird will be stuck with an 
outdated Adblock Plus version.



REF: 



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Re: Block Requests to specific domain?

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Gerry Hickman wrote:


Is it possible to prevent SeaMonkey making requests to a certain
domain? I know you can "block images" from a certain domain, but can
you tell SM to never make any kind of request to that domain?

e.g. a domain called ads.com, with servers, x.ads.com, y.ads.com

can you block any request to *.ads.com?




Works with SeaMonkey too, though the page doesn't say so.

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Block Requests to specific domain?

[Gerry Hickman via support-seamonkey]

Is it possible to prevent SeaMonkey making requests to a certain domain? 
I know you can "block images" from a certain domain, but can you tell SM 
to never make any kind of request to that domain?


e.g. a domain called ads.com, with servers, x.ads.com, y.ads.com

can you block any request to *.ads.com?

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