Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support - now getting rid of ads

["Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com>]

On 4/13/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> A. F. Cano wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:49:01PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Oh wait, did Flash do that?
> >>
> >> I have to say I find the web a much better place without it.  Much of
> >> the annoying advertising disappears if you remove flash.  OK, you miss
> >
> > The proper way to do this is by having privoxy between your browser and
> > the internet.  I've been running it for years and couldn't live without
> > it.
> >
>
> If you are using iceweasel, there are nice extension called Adblock plus,
> Adblock plus: Element hiding helper. Once you install these extensions, you
> can right click on the ads and block them. Very easy to use than privoxy.

There's also Flash Block or NoScript.  I have both installed.  For
sites that I allow to run scripts, I still have the flash animations
blocked by Flash Block.  If you have both, make sure you set NoScript
to block flash, since Flash Block uses javascript to, well, block
flash.  If NoScript isn't handling flash as well, you'll get no flash
blocking on untrusted sites, and that's probably not what you want.

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