[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 September 2011 10:48, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The closest we could come to a neutral filtering system is an easily
>> accessible on/off switch for images.
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> Interestingly, this proposal has come up many times completely separate to
> the issue of image filtering.  Many users, particularly those on dial-up
> systems or those whose billing is related to the amount of data accessed
> have asked for this ability for some time. For them it is a performance/cost
> issue, and has nothing to do with filtering. Given some of the arguments
> that have been made in opposition to filtering, particularly those that seem
> to focus on "the content should be displayed in the way the authors
> intended", I'm concerned there would be equally significant opposition to
> even this simple matter.

Turning off images should be, and can be, done by the user-agent.
We have a help page describing how to do this.

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John Vandenberg