Disabling Flash on Specific Sites?

xrjlx asks: "Does anyone know how to disable flash on just specific sites like cnet and yahoo so that those annoying ads don't come up on the screen. One way to do it is by setting "run active x controls" to "prompt." This gets annoying though because many sites legitimately use them. Are there any programs written that will allow me to just selectively block the use of flash on certain sites?" It makes sense to me that, like cookies and the use of Javascript, ALL browsers should have some kind of by-domain filter that selectively activates whatever set of plugins (including Flash) that provides the user with the kind of web experience that they want, of course, many might see this as too much micromanagement for their tastes. I say it all boils down to a well defined UI. What say you?

Comments

If you're using IE...

[Will_Malverson]

Add the sites in question to the "Restricted" zone.

What we need

[sydb]

Is:

1. Filtering browsers in wide circulation. I.E.'s 'zones' are not very obvious, most users don't understand how they work. Mozilla, galeon and the like have good interfaces for filtering. (right-click, block)

2. Good, free, log analysis software (I'm sure this is already there.)

3. A campaign to encourage web designers / admins to use the log analysis software so they know what people are blocking. Then they might stop putting it up which is the important bit.

Will this ever happen? I doubt it.

Instead, companies will just come up with clever ways to bypass filtering. Block by domain? Fine, they'll use dynamic domain names for the sources.

Re:What we need

[mrzaph0d]

if we have #2 and #3, we'll also have people claiming that it's spyware, complaining that they want to know what you're blocking. as such, the people who know how to block stuff will turn the logging off, and the people who don't know how to block stuff will leave the logging on. so analyzing the logs wouldn't do much good, would it?