Flashblock

[francis]

Another reason to love Moz and/or Firefox: the Flashblock extension (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/). It blocks all Flash content on a page and replaces it with a placeholder. If you want to play a Flash movie then just click on the placeholder. No more Flash banner ads for me :D Can you hug software?

[francis]

Interestingly, Wired have just published "a tightwad's guide to ad blocking" (http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63442,00.html/wn_ascii) which mentions, amongst others, my new Flashblock best friend. Which is ironic, as I used to hate reading Wired articles as they include some exceptionally annoying Flash ads. How strange of them to publish that artilcle - their advertisers must be loving them...

If you're interested, this is what all embedded Flash content looks like in my Moz now, unless I specifically want to play it:

http://www.websitearchitecture.co.uk/storr/forumimgs/flashblock.gif

No sound interrupting my iTunes, no animation distracting my reading and with Moz's excellent popup blocking and a "block all images from this server" right-click function, I'm drastically reducing the crud I have to put up with when surfing.

IE still good for you guys? :rolleyes:

[David]

Ah, but what "Unknown Pleasures" are you missing? Do you think Ian Curtis uses Moz in heaven?

[francis]

The unknown pleasures of Flash banner ads? Nope, I can't see that there are any. You'd have to be a suicidal depressive not to use Moz. Oh...