Thieves Like Us » blocked http://egbt.com/blog In which we explore our shared interests in music, vice, and ideas. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:04:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Prior Art: Firefox Plugin to warn of corporate block http://egbt.com/blog/2009/02/12/prior-art-firefox-plugin-to-warn-of-corporate-block/ http://egbt.com/blog/2009/02/12/prior-art-firefox-plugin-to-warn-of-corporate-block/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:27:27 +0000 Brian Mars http://egbt.com/blog/?p=386

I work at a fairly large corporation that feels its necessary to treat their employees as children. To that end, they have installed one of those subscription based proxies/firewalls that blocks internet content based on URLs.

I also read a number of mailing lists everyday and the number of links that are floated my way on a daily basis is staggering. The number of them that will make it through the firewall – not so much.

I am ok with ocassionally hitting the “Bad Dog No Biscuit” page when a request goes through. What I don’t like is hitting that page for the same URL/domain multiple times. Sure, I know that I cant click on certain links, but my tiny brain refuses to remember them all.

So – I would like to see a Firefix plugin that can capture those error pages and if I click a link that would trigger another one, have the plugin alert me before the request goes through.

Get on it plugin developers!

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