Internet Explorer - Block certain images

Using the HOSTS file to block images is a way to do it...

http://accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html

FireFox also has an option to block images from a particular server btu I haven't found this option in IE6, there maybe an option that can be minipulated to do this however in IE7.

This looked cool too! A PHP script to block images!

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/bandwidththeft.shtml

Any particular image

Say you go to certain sites daily. Images appear that you don't want to see.  So block those, but allow the rest

Preferred is a built-in OS solution, or a low-resource&memory-use free tool

So basically: stop images from downloading and/or loading into the browser. If the HOSTS file can do it, that'd be cool...

Will increase points according to the solution given

-R.S.

I am currently using Norton Internet Security 2005.  It has a parental control section that can be configured and it has many categories that can be set for each user on my home system.  My wife and I are not restricted while I have placed some restrictions on my son at home.  It probably has 12 or more settings just in sex related categories alone and many others.  I am using a WinXP Pro operating system.  I had trouble when I tried to run this on my old Win98SE system.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

This site shows you how to block the banner adds, I unfortunately tried taking an image link, like the Google logo on the Google.com page and added it to the Hosts file and reboot the system. It didn't block the logo. I may have done something wrong however and I mess with my system setting a good bit so it maybe related to that. You can always also write a page that loads just what you want from a site or page and nothing else.

LTU Image filter may be what you're after:
http://www.ltutech.com/en/technology-and-products.image-filter.html
Some clever programming here.

Forget IE. Mozilla Firefox is far far more better than IE and it's Free. I tested firefox two years ago then I never lived without it.
It's always far more ahed then our expectations. Specially it's extention part. Almost everything is there. It's really cool.

For some specific website you can instruct Firefox to do not Load images from some specific website/s whereas other websites can load images with no prblem. You can categories as per custom requirements.

Just test it once.
http://ftp-mozilla.netscape.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.5/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 1.5.0.5.exe

A cool feature with it's Flash Got Extention (Right click on a page and then click "Flash Got All" It will give you all available download links at once and can start download immediately.

I (and several hundred people I work with) have been using this site for over a year and have had no complaints.
Great blocking/protection from 'Unwanted Banners' - and Hijacking.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

IN Mozilla and firefox, here is what you do.  Install the "ADBLOCK" plugin by dumping the plugin on the browser window.  Thereafter, you can block ANY level of images whatsoever, from those coming from an entire site to those that are specific to a directory, to individual images.  It is TERRIFIC !!!

Just DL Mozilla, install it, and get adblock as a plugin from the site.  Then drag the plugin to the moz. open window and install it.  As you visit each site, adblock the image, and decide if you want more global directory blocking of images than just each individual image.

With your expertise, this will take you all of 10 minutes, and you can experience the flexibility in less than 10 more minutes.  Moreover, Mozilla is the most stable browser there is, more stable than Firefox.

So I dont know of anything better than this, but that is what I would use, if I were you.  Good luck !!

Some credit & points to FF solutions after a chance to try them. I do use FF & prefer it over IE. HOWEVER, for certain reasons I need to also use IE.

So top marks for an IE solution. This issue is driving me nuts. I need to block one image on a website in particular.

If someone can give instruct me in a fully working example with the hosts file or related solution, 400 to 450 points to them (rest shared). I need to know exactly how to take a certain image link & stop that image from appearing in IE (on Win98).

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vallis, the filter is not for 98. I need it to work on 98 & 2k & XP, anywhere I use Internet Explorer.
But thanks. I'll test it out (much) later on XP.

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dhsindy, I prefer not to use Norton - may be a resource hog etc. But I'll keep it in mind.

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bthomasian, I don't use PHP, but I do have Perl installed. But either way, will that work for image-blocking while browsing in IE?

I agree with you. IE has it's own importance. Some domains only support IE like bank websites etc.

Anyway, Firefox has also a solution for this problem :- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

Though your soultion is still a issue.

My post above does all that you are asking.

For any 'special' cases, you can just add a line to your 'hosts' file.
Look here (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) to see what your 'hosts' file looks like - it should open with Notepad.

Sample at end of this post.

Add the line 127.0.0.1 (tab) then the IP address or URL or the banner you are trying to block.

127.0.0.1   www.lousybanners.com

Good Luck,
Vic
 
#PLACE THIS FILE IN YOUR C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc DIRECTORY!!!!!
# Copyright (c) 1993-1995 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows NT.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost

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younghv, I don't need that.
Please don't post without carefully reading what's requested.

I want to block an IMAGE, not an entire site.

When you can instruct me on how to do exactly that-- a solid example e.g. go to a website & one image gets blocked while others are displayed - as was made clear, then feel free to post. Otherwise, it's just filling up space.
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! ! !

: )

callrs - maybe if you gave an example of a site (and image) the you are talking about, I could give you an example of how using a hosts file can block it.

How about this. If YOU can get it working for a site of your choosing. Then get me to do the same, you get points.  : )

Old Grunts like me love a challenge.

I'll have to go to the workbench and find a computer without the modified 'hosts' file.  Back later with another sample.

I opened up 'Drudge Report' with the banner ads flashing at the top.

Right click on the banner and open properties.
Copy the URL.

Open up the Hosts file.
Enter 127.0.0.1 plus a couple of spaces, then 'paste' the URL(s) -- I repeated this for 4 different banners.

Save and exit.

In IE, I cleared all cached info, cookies, etc.

Close an re-open IE.

Opened Drudge again and did continual refreshes. The blocked banner ads never re-appear, unblocked banners are flashing away.

I'm curious if this works for you and if some of the other gurus around here have tried the same method.

Good Luck,
Vic

I'm after images though, not Flash banners.
Like a gif or a jpg. Let me know when you can block one out of other images on a page.

The same process blocked an 'image ad', but leaves a "The Page Cannot be displayed....." text.
Not sure if you can live with that.
Sample follows:

127.0.0.1  tribalfusion.speedera.net #[a889.g.akamai.net]

If you look here, I think you will see this doesnt exist for IE --
http://www.google.com/search?num=30&q=Adblock+for+IE

So no matter how supposedly "important" IE is in its own right, which I doubt, you might just not be able to do this in IE like you can in Moz/FF.  The only VALID argument for IE is that banks and the like are sometimes too stupid to make their sites cross browser compatible.  SO to get to your bank, you might HAVE to use IE.  For the rest of them though, if the owners are too dim to write a cross browser compatible web page, then HEY, they dont deserve my attention.  Only the SMART people deserve my time on the net, I have too little of it to waste on the dippos.  How is that for a "VALID" solution?

>>Not sure if you can live with that.
Sure I can live with that.
But that link you gave, does the site exist? The page can't be found...
If site exists, post here a link to the image it blocks & I will try again later to bring up the site. Remember, it must be an image file (like jpg or gif etc)
Or just choose a different site among the millions out there.

Ok lets make this crystal clear with a simple example.

Go to www.google.com

Try to block the Google image (the big "Google" logo) as you visit the site. The link I have is http://www.google.ca/intl/en_ca/images/logo.gif. It may be different for you, but concept remains the same.

If you can do that for me, you win  :)      Not that I want to block the Google logo, but just using it as an example.

callrs,
I can't make it happen and my block example (from yesterday) stopped working.
Think I'll just sit back and watch this one for a while.

Vic

Hi callrs,

That is exactly the site I tried to hide the image on, the Google page! Unfortunately using even the HOSTS file to block the image it did not work. I was able to recreat the Google page minus the logo but that's not what you want. I'm still trying other ideas but keep bumping into a wall when I try them. I'll let you know if I find something!

arrange security for the sites and like that all adult sites or images will not display

Solution found! Joy at last! Three weeks now. What a blast!
One worked well, but daily crashed! Then came one to fit the task!

>>> www.geocities.com/callrs/ieblockimages.htm


Give effort points here...
Or a gem of a result?     : )

-R.S.

Who wants the solution?

callrs,
I do.
Your poem doesn't give much of a clue.
Post away.
If it involves a hosts file, I want at least 3 1/2 points.
Vic

No hosts file.
But If i give solution,its PAQ without points.
So choose. Points or solution : )

I vote solution.
Vic

callrs, you obviously have too much time on your hands.
Take up a hobby.
Maybe learning poetry.... :o)

Vallis, was that a serious remark?
If you find something wrong, state specifics instead of blindly tarnishing me.

I think you've misread the verse. It's can even be sung to a lively beat. it's not merely verse.

But even better, I dare you to produce a better verse on the topic.

No, it wasn't a serious remark.
I enjoyed the poem and the thread.
Sorry to have been unclear on that.

I am interested in the solution as well!

The solution is allways what counts on this site, as it can help solve future problems.

Will post as soon as I catch up on a massive email backlog

Have you caught up?

Have you caught up yet?
There is a post today in the XP forum asking for the same thing.
Post your solution there and get some POINTS!
(And let us know the answer.)
Vic

Really sorry. Gosh I need practical help myself on workload  o.O

Solution is a proxy filter and/or a program that uses the IE engine.
Wrote a review a week ago, but want to place it at CNET & then link to it from here...still haven't had time.

http://www.geocities.com/callrs/maxthonreview.htm gives you a plain text preview.

Will post final link here later.

http:#17441927 points vs. solution --> consensus: solution  --> http:#17569050

Have you decided to close the Q?

If we wait 10 more days, it will be an even 3 months since the question was opened.

Was hoping to skip a step, since you as an admin are already active here and can "make a recommendation to the moderators" to PAQ the question. Answer as found on own & previously stated is a proxy filter (e.g. Bfilter, Cyclope) and/or a browser that uses the EE engine (Avant, Maxthon, etc.).  

Acceptable?

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Anyone here tried/liked the solution?

If I do the recommendation that will not show well on your records. That's why it is better for the asker to take the necessary steps to close his Q's, but if you want I can do the recommendation...

callrs,

Your previous response of: "Solution is a proxy filter and/or a program that uses the IE engine." won't do much to assist future users.

It is pretty hard to use that answer if I was trying to solve a problem.

Younghv, have you ignored the given info again? Comment betrays the solution that exists in the link & link name as well in my last comment (http:#17817026, http:#17569050) to close the thread. But you seem to keep overlooking the info given: First you hijack the question (http:#17215628) by suggesting and not crediting what had already been suggested (http:#17212958, http:#17212796), then confidently state "My post above does all that you are asking" (http:#17222451) despite my having cleared up the need (http:#17212837, http:#17222575).  "Think I'll just sit back and watch this one for a while." -> this was sensible comment; you should have left it at that.

"If we wait 10 more days, it will be an even 3 months..." -> sure, but do you have any inkling at all what I've been through in the past weeks and months? No thank you or compassion from you, just a damming... but whatever, I need to move on.

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Rindi, please make the recommendation or close directly. I have reason even more appalling, than the above relatively timid behavior, not to ask at EE, as you can sense from my answer history; activity gone to almost nil since the 8th despite being 3rd & 4th place in September & August and what was to have been even higher in those months and this month.

I thank the others for their participation, and vallis for showing the best of hearts.

You're right my post about HOSTS files was an exact duplicate of bthomasian's and I didn't realize it until that was pointed out.
It was an inadvertant, rookie mistake and I apologize - to bthomasian.

Hijacked?
Yeah, you're right.
And you have such a cordial classy way of expressing yourself.

Your own 'solution' states that what you came up with doesn't work in 98 - which was one of the criteria you established 2 days after the initial post.
Of course, your description of what you wanted changed with about every other post, so it was kind of hard to figure out what you were actually looking for.

"sure, but do you have any inkling at all what I've been through in the past weeks and months?"

No, I have no idea whatever.
But I do know that you took the time to participate in 61 posts this month and 237 posts in September.
Perhaps - just perhaps - you could have used some of that time close this question?

None of this is really any of my business, but since you took the time to engage in a wide-open Ad Hominem attack, it seemed that some sort of response was required.

Nothing in your most recent post - or mine - have much to do with the real subject, and I am 'un-subscribing' to the post.
If you feel inclined to continue your attacks, please use the email address in my profile.

"Have a Nice Day".

If it wasn't for that untoward comment after admin had already commented...well let's let it go. Was hoping for positive feedback, but I need now move on.

On a technical note: The whole review was made from extensive use of Maxthon in 98. Haven't even used it in XP.
Except for some forgivable quirks, it works in 98 which is my main computer used for all my EE browsing & posts for the past months - up to 70 tabs open at once without it crashing Win98 like IE does. I've configured it to shut out all the images at the EE site except for some navigations, fitting more actual text into the page to boost productivity while blocking unwanted images. The proxy filters I've not yet tried, but they are designed for the same thing and beyond.

rindi,
If you could apply your 'magic eraser' and remove ALL of my posts from this string, it would be much appreciated.

Thank you

(Delete acceptable, but issue was) resolved amicably via email with apologies given. Sorry for the alarm folks. Beam back to better browsing  ; )

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Rindi, please make the recommendation or close directly. I've reason not to ask at EE, as can sensed from my answer history gone to almost nil since the 8th despite a record-setting prior 4½ months.

Thanks everyone for your participation.