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Re: Junkbusting flash ads?



begin  dman  quotation:

> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:03:47AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote:
> | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> | > csj <csj@mindgate.net> wrote on 30/03/2002 (09:29) :
> | > > 
> | > > I can think of another: use a browser that doesn't support flash.
> | > 
> | > Even better would be if one could turn it on and off in galeon/mozilla
> | > with a button. Then there would be less problem with sound too.
> | 
> | I agree that the abilitie to enable/disable flash in galeon/mozilla is a
> | missing feature.
> 
> You can almost do that by (re)moving the plugin's .so file and
> restarting the browser.

These are all silly non-solutions. What is really needed is, at the very
least, a per-site blacklist for flash, just as Mozilla (and I presume
Galeon) already have for cookies and images. Even better would be
Junkbuster-style regexp-matching.

Craig

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