Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

Drake — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:23:20 GMT

@EricLaw

I must say I didn't understand that last point. You seem to be saying even if you add new options to the Restricted Sites zone it would impact how sites not listed in it would work? Er... why? If a site isn't listed in this zone I cannot see any reason why it should have an impact? So you're saying as WIE8 stands now if I change certain options in the Restricted Sizes zone it will actually have consequences on the other four zones?

My original point was simply: why aren't the options currently found as global options in the Multimedia section on the Advanced tab ("Play animations in web pages", "Play sounds in webpages" and "Show pictures") per-zone, rather than global? As a specific example, a site in my Restricted Sites zone cannot use Flash or Silverlight content because ActiveX in this zone is locked-down; nor can it offer me file downloads or use it's own custom fonts. Great. But it still can use GIFs for animated adverts, show static picture adverts (in non-GIF formats) or play a wave or MIDI file embedded on the page as the Zones have no say on these items -- they are globally on or off for all zones. I'm simply asking why this is and why these cannot be per-zone controlled settings. I'm not sure where you mentioning IFRAME fits into this specifically?

re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

Chris — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:11:12 GMT

WOW. Did NOT see Tracking Protection Lists coming. Guess we have that Subscription based InPrivate Filtering after all :)

*Rubs hands* AdblockPlus comes to IE9.

re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

EricLaw [ex-MSFT] — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:43:34 GMT

@Ted: This post explains how you can do many of these things using the various technologies are available. Some forms of "filtering" are more complicated than you might imagine, because, for instance, to actually "know" the intrinsic size of an image, you must download it.

re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

EricLaw [ex-MSFT] — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:38:46 GMT

@gmj: See blogs.msdn.com/.../csshistoryprobing.aspx for a more complete discussion of the CSS History issue and additional workaround choices.

re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

Ted — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:53:43 GMT

We run and can't change on a fast connection that is very very slow to make the connect. This means that web access is quite slow given that each object retrieved is a new connection. Can we get better blocking such as scripts from a given site, web beacon images of size 1x1 or smaller, share this icons of size < x by y such as every site having 5 or more social networking icons.

re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

gmj — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:15:01 GMT

Recent AP article about "history sniffing" indicated that Google, Apple, and in the next version FireFox will prevent this but in IE one must enable "in private" browsing to prevent "history sniffing". Can this be added to IE9?

re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

EricLaw [ex-MSFT] — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:46:23 GMT

@stephanie van gundy: Yes, you can disable InPrivate; see blogs.msdn.com/.../how-to-disable-and-block-internet-explorer-inprivate-browsing-mode.aspx

@Drake: <<making the Restricted Sizes more restrictive, which won't impact Hotmail >>

That is incorrect. Security=Restricted IFRAMES (used by sites to render potentially unsafe HTML like emails) are controlled by the security zone settings even when the Zone's sitelist is empty. That's inherent in the architecture of the feature.

To jader3rd's point, yes, you can absolutely break websites by changing zone settings-- this is why care needs to be used with this technique.

@Viktor: As is often the case, if we weren't concerned about compatibility, then certainly, such a change could be made.

re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

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re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

Poli Elise — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:38:34 GMT

Controlling the content on the user side on the is great! *pats-on-NoScript-and-ABP-addons-for-Firefox*

re: Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers

stephanie van gundy — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:04:52 GMT

is there anyway disable the possibility of using InPrivate Browsing. i dont want to even have this option.