In the comments to my previous post, Scott Galloway noted that advertisements could be the only thing keeping some web sites afloat financially. I noted that I didn’t mind text ads or static images, but animated gifs and Flash ads had to go.
Well, it doesn’t have to be one or the other. FlashBlock is a Mozilla/Firefox extension that never loads Flash until you tell it to. From the web site:
Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves a placeholder on the page that allows you to click to view the Flash content.
Posted
Thu, Oct 21 2004 10:40 AM
by
Darrell Norton