[Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats
Strainu
strainu10 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 19:34:03 UTC 2011
2011/9/9 FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>:
> No. Same as you can't tell most preferences a user has set, or which
> articles they watch. In simple terms, the filter code only filters content
> when user prefs say so, and other users can't tell what filter prefs a user
> has or what code is executed client-side (ie in their browser not at the
> server) without actual access to their computer.
>
> FT2
That is not entirely true. It is theoretically feasible to get the
categories from the api and then call the code that "hides" the images
for the images that match a category. How practical it is remains to
be seen.
Strainu
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