More filtering foo for Xtina

[asterroc]

the_xtina, prompted by a post by hitchhiker, I'm curious as to whether one can write a greasemonkey script that would look at each icon on a page searching for a characteristic file size, image dimensions, and loop time, or some other simple description of the file that wouldn't require actual face recognition-style analysis, and then block either (a) the icon itself, or (b) any post or comment with that icon.

I don't actually care about the specific icon in question and wouldn't use such a script, I'm just curious if this is doable. So don't feel you need to create such a thing, a yes or no would be entirely satisfying to me.

Comments

[xoder.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be easier to check the URL of the icon, if your goal is to block a particular poster?

JavaScript (which is what Greasemonkey uses) would have a very hard time doing the kind of checksumming you're speaking of. File sizes and raw IMG data are not accessible by the DOM.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

The problem is that many people use the particular icon that hitchhiker dislikes, and therefore the icon URL is not consistent.

[xoder.livejournal.com]

I still think it would be easier to just have a list of banned photos. Hell, if you have ad-block already installed, you can block the icons one by one as they come up.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

that's pretty much what i'm doing