Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:35:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au> Subject: Re: question about "gnash" or "kde-gnash" Message-ID: <1208727315.22010.28.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <480AEDE3.7030407@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20080419211122.GA22300@thought.org> <480AC57D.80502@frase.id.au> <480AEDE3.7030407@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 08:16 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Fraser Tweedale wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > >> I'd feel real warm+funny nuking the ads that churn my uprocessor. > > > > You can use the Firefox FlashBlock extension which blocks all flash > > objects, and allows you to run only the ones you want. > > xpi-noscript is even better IMHO. Blocks flash, javascript and all > forms of embedded media. Will remember the sites where you *do* want > that stuff, or it will let you turn it on temporarily. It's in ports: > www/xpi-noscript Not guaranteed to block every advert, but the ones it > does let through will be relatively inoffensive. > II'll try both, thanks, gentlemen. There *are* a few sites that firefox interpreted as advertising that helped me design custom T-shirt logos, caps, sweatshirts, &c! Undo-ing that "Adblock" was a further exercise in learning _prudence_. :-) gary > Cheers, > > Matthew >
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