Release 3.8.0 is out and I'm excited for two new features in there! I've been using Codex lately to boost some of the coding and it has helped get some great features over the finish line.
First, a small but helpful quality of life improvement. Sometimes a helpful image gets blocked, and it's quite annoying not to see it. As of this release, if you have the on/off switch enabled you'll also get a new option when you right click on an image, "Reveal Blocked Image". This will cause the image to reload so you can see it! As a design decision, I left this gated behind the on/off switch visibility because that's the most likely option to be set if the user wants to intervene in the filtering, so it seemed appropriate since it has the same "permissions" in a way. Note that in some cases this may not work as the thing you are clicking on it is not actually the image itself, but rather other visual elements in front of it. The addon does some work to navigate this situation but it's not perfect. But I'd say it works in about 95% of the situations I've tried it in and it's quite helpful!
Second, the long-awaited custom image collection support is here! If you use "silent mode", placeholder images will be used in place of the standard blocked image. Now you can create your own custom image collections yourself, either using your own images or by searching a couple popular open image providers. Here's a screenshot of it in action! The way this feature works is it loads the images, downsizes them so it fits well within browser local storage, and then cycles through the image replacements. I know this has been a popular request, so I'm glad to see it finally in place!
Also, I have removed the Cloudflare DNS option. From survey and other feedback it seems to have been basically unused by anyone. Leaving it creates more to declare on the new data collection policy tags, so I've decided to remove it.
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