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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 16 October 2003, 05:50

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: mobrien_12 on 16 October 2003, 05:50

I'm getting sick of flash ads.  Problem is, I need shockwave flash for some sites.  Anyone know a way to turn it off and on, or perhaps how to block flash ads from certain sites (like we can do with images in mozilla)?

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: Siplus on 16 October 2003, 07:06

i assume you mean the blinking ads/banners that appear on some pages?

there is an option in opera to stop this, not sure about mozilla (but i am sure there is a similar option)...who's the mozilla expert here?

[ October 15, 2003: Message edited by: Siplus ]

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: Fett101 on 16 October 2003, 07:24

This (http://texturizer.net/firebird/adblock.html)  thing works well for the majority of flash ads. I'm able to visit IGN.com without any ass-raping. Why I would want to visit though.... I dunno.   :D

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: Refalm on 16 October 2003, 12:24

Prefbar (http://prefbar.mozdev.org/) for Mozilla and Firebird kills Flash with a click of a button.

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: M51DPS on 16 October 2003, 23:11

You can block many ads altogether with your hosts file. I get the servers from here (http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/).

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: mobrien_12 on 17 October 2003, 04:23

Thanks all!

I've tried both Fett's file and the toolbar that refalm posted.   They are both very nice solutions and will work together.

I found the idea of blocking adservers with the /etc/hosts file very interesting (thanks for the link m51dps!).

Again, thank you all.

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 4 November 2003, 16:39

A good test for your new ad blocking is most definately IGN.com - especially their "Vault Network" - packed with Flash ads!

For the poor Windows users out there, there's a thing called proxomitron (or alternatively the hosts file - if you can find it)

You could always firewall out the ad servers?

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: Refalm on 4 November 2003, 16:51

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The Dark Lord Kaltemar: For the poor Windows users out there, there's a thing called proxomitron (or alternatively the hosts file - if you can find it)

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C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\

Edit it with Vi IMproved (http://www.vim.org/). Notepad, Word or WordPad won't work.

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: mobrien_12 on 5 April 2004, 13:19

I discovered this today

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/)

It's a mozilla plugin that disables flash by default.  If there's a flash thing you want to see, you click on it and it opens, so that which is not explicity permitted is denied.

Title: Flash Ads SUCK
Post by: PseudoRandomDragon on 14 April 2004, 07:13

ZoneAlarm Pro blocks the mobile code required for flash on all sites except ones I specifically allow, so I don't see the ads. Flash ads are gay.