Florian Kulzer wrote: > There are websites that check for the presence of the acroread plugin > before they even give you the chance to download a PDF. This is usually > a misguided attempt at being user friendly: Someone assumes that the > visitors cannot handle PDFs without the plugin and that they therefore > do not want to waste time and bandwidth by downloading any such files. > > Turning off javascript should disable the plugin detection routine; > unfortunately this often breaks other functionality of the website. If > the approach of the website relies on a redirect then it might be > possible to foil the scheme with a redirect-blocking plugin. The most > general solution to this problem is analysing the detection routine and > devising a specific counter mechanism that leaves the rest of the > website functional, for example by means of a filtering proxy, a > targeted adblock rule or a greasemonkey script.
Do you have an example at hand? Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
