Adblock. Flashblock. And a handy-dandy list of prebuilt “rules” for Adblock, collected here. (One can only hope that the bloke in question moves off of Geocities some day.)
Why? Because I finally got sick and tired of the “shoot the monkey” kind of noisy, distracting Flash adverts, and figured that if I’m going to start blocking ads I might as well go all-out. And because I run Firefox, which already lets me block pop-up ads and other annoying crap.
Consider this part PSA, part note-to-self.
By the by: Flashblock can be configured to allow specific sites automatically, so for instance you can go to Tools —> Extensions, double-click on Flashblock in the list, and add in “www.neopets.com”. The really neat part is that Flash hosted on the Neopets site itself will still work, but off-site adverts won’t. Neat.
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2 responses to “Finally Fed Up With Flashverts.”
Please tell Lilith that the house across the street from me is for rent if she and entourage are still interested in moving into a stable neighborhood where children and four-footed ones are safe.
Warm regards,
Robin
Uh. Okay. (Wouldn’t an email have been better?)