RapidShare (moved into "Website Customization")...

[ProxRocks]

now fully functional (ZERO crapola's in GreenBrowser, Opera, Pale Moon, and Iron)...

the above-posted "web filter" renamed from 'Part 3' to 'Part 4', no other changes to it rather than renaming it...

new "Part 3" is a third header filter (only needed in Pale Moon and Iron [which means any Firefox-based and any Chrome-based] for reasons I'll discuss as a "side note"):

Code:

In = FALSE
Out = TRUE
Key = "! : RDIR: RapidShare: Preserve Half-SSL - Part 3 (0ut) [add]"
URL = "([^/]++rapidshare.com/favicon.ico)\1$RDIR(http://local.ptron/killed.gif)"

<side note:>
this one kind of "infuriates" me...
i have LONG been a HATER of "favicons"...

despite having favicon-killer filters and them AXING the "code" that is fetching these CURSED nuances, Firefox and Chrome fetch them anyway!

it is somehow HARD WIRED into Firefox and Chrome to fetch favicons - FOR EVERY PAGE YOU VISIT, not just when you "bookmark" the page...

why in HADES is Firefox and Chrome fetching a d@mn favicon when the very <link rel> code is AXED?

there is NOTHING in the "rendered code" TELLING Firefox/Chrome to fetch that d@mn nuisance!
not that i can find...


i realize that web owners can use pretty much "anything" to track you...
several years back, our company went to a local intranet "web-based" time-tracking system to log and track billable hours...
the "IT guy" would send out occasional e-mails with links to click that would open in our browser...
one of those e-mails was an update to some company policy or whatnot...
the "IT guy" comes to my desk a few days later, "why haven't you read our policy updates yet?"...
"i have read them..."
he asked my three or four times over the next few days, each time with me telling him, even quoting the policy, that i HAVE read it...
"on whose computer did you read it?"...
"right here, on my computer..."
he'd keep coming back, "i realize that you are management and i mean no disrespect, but there is no way that you read that policy, it is my job to make sure that everybody has read it, i'm only asking you to please read it again if you haven't already"...
"you NEED TO STEP DOWN, mister, i HAVE read it, i applaud your work ethics and you ensuring that your job goals are met", yadda yadda yadda...
he comes in to my office again, "my records still indicate that you have not read the new policy"...

he was one of the "old types" that really had "issues" with anybody in "management" that was HALF HIS AGE...

i walked him into his boss's office, closed the door behind us, and explained to the both of them how i am higher up the ladder than both of them and that this is the last straw, i'm filing an official reprimand with his boss...

it came out during that meeting that he was using the FAVICON to track which computers read, and did not read, the new policy...

all managers (and sales reps) had their own laptop and we did NOT have to go through "IT" to install software - but we did have to let them know what software we had installed...

it was during the days of IE6 and so MOST EVERYONE in the company ran Firefox NOT because it was "more secure", but because it had TABBED BROWSING... i was running SLEIPNIR (it had tabbed browsing also) at the time and it, being IE and not "fu&%fox" handled favicons differently... i was running Proxo, of course, but it was fully bypassed for the company's local intranet...

i was stunned, he's been "calling me a lier" solely because my web browser did NOT download his precious little d@mn FAVICON...