I find that flashblock deals quite satisfactorily with flash adds. And when you wish to see the contents you can so with a single click.
On 27 April 2011 16:29, Gregg Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:42:37 +0000 >> Chip Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Good book. Extremely obnoxious ads on website. >> >> Well perhaps you should get it from the proper source ? >> >> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005658 >> >> (and install an adfilter, if people deployed Adblock Plus in their >> default firefox rollouts they'd be amazed what it does to browsing speed, >> noise and bandwidth requirements) >> >> Alan >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hello! > I quite agree Alan. But the big problem with most adfilters is that > they are indiscriminate. They can not tell a graphic from our friends > at Amazon, from an ad that our friend, and myself find obnoxious. > > The problem with Flash is that it has become the favorite of these > truly desperate people, online advertisers. > > Now if Adobe would understand that and take a big hint.... Never mind, > good advice. > ----- > Gregg C Levine [email protected] > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
