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04 Aug 2008, 5:22 pm

krex wrote:
I thought the same thing when I joined here and there were lots of flashing adds. I would have to cover them up with a sheet of paper, just to read the posts.


That's bad of course, but it's not really WP's fault. A lot of webmasters don't have much control with the ads. As a previous poster said, Firefox with AdBlock Plus and one of the filters works wonders. In the time I've been using it I have seen ONE ad, which I promptly blocked.



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04 Aug 2008, 5:36 pm

It works wonders to disable flash in your browswer. Just go to tools, manage add-ons, and look for flash. It only takes a second to enable/disable it.

Unfortunately facebook now requires you to have flash to view a homepage even if there are no flash images on it, but again its a minor inconvenience and well worth not having the rapidly flashing adds that are common to the internet



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04 Aug 2008, 8:05 pm

If you use firefox, install the FlashBlock extension. This lets you optionally turn on flash per page so nothing ever pops up unexpectedly



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05 Aug 2008, 12:08 pm

I use firefox with the NoScript addon. It stops scripts from running without your permission, including flash, java, xml, which can all be malicious as well.