Re: OMG WTF BBQ balloons

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Dominic Hargreaves writes ("Re: OMG WTF BBQ balloons"):
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:00:09PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I just had to tell NoScript "forbid debian.org" because I wanted to
> > read a bug report.
> > 
> > I don't want to be a spoilsport but, honestly!
> 
> Agreed, this is just disruptive. If they must stay, at least make it
> possible to turn them off without resorting to local browser policies.

NB that the obvious implementation of this, a "no balloons" cookie,
doesn't work for people (like me) who don't accept cookies unless we
want to identify ourselves to the site in question.

Ian.