Flashblock
Those blinking advertising banners all over the net can be pretty annoying, and the new generation of web advertising is flash-based, which has rendered good-old Adblock and similar countermeasures ineffective.
The Flashblock Firefox extension to the rescue. It simply gives all embedded flash animations a play button. Brilliant, actually.
Update: I have just been informed in a comment by Adblock creator Wladimir Palant that Adblock Plus also works with flash.
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2 Comments:
Actually, both Adblock and Adblock Plus block Flash just fine. You cannot block via context menu but there are other options: http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_basics#objects
I havent heard of Adblock Plus, but I have just installed it, and I can see it works fine. Thanks for the tip:)
With Adblock Plus you can see the flash element, and can choose to eliminate it, whereas it's the other way around with Flashblock.
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