[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 September 2011 17:18, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  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:
>> >
>> >> <snip>
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>> >> The closest we could come to a neutral filtering system is an easily
>> >> accessible on/off switch for images.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > 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.
>>
>>
> That would be the page with the great big "this page is out of date" notice
> at the top, giving instructions that are not valid for the most common user
> agents (Firefox 2?).

Every version of Mozilla has included the "Dont load images" option.
And it is simple to find.

-- 
John Vandenberg