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Disabling Flash in the Browser?
fishdan asks: "I know there are a few tools for selectively disabling flash in IE, but there is currently nothing in Mozilla. I'm wondering how many people have just removed Flash (as I have) by deleting the appropriate files? I find it greatly enhances my web experience, and on the very few cases when i think there is something worth seeing in Flash, I'll check it out on someone else's computer. I know someone is working on a 'disable flash from this site' for Moz X.x.x, but I'm wondering what people are doing now? I'm also actively advising people I know to remove Flash because of the lack of control for it on the users end. Short of deleting Flash, there's nothing uses can do to to stop those irritating ads. I don't mind the moderate ones, but the excessive ads are enough for me to throw the baby out with the bath-water."
With great dilligence I avoided allowing Flash to install itself on my primary Windows machine. Then one day my brother came over with a friend, and five minutes later his friend had installed Flash so he could see the cheesy entry page to some mountain bike vendor charging $200 to the negative gram. Good work Dale, you made my virus of the month club. Actually, I'm not sure whether Dale is a virus or a trojan or a worm.
I figure there's no hope for Flash ever becoming as useful to the end user after installation as it is before installation. Flash uninstalled is the easiest method of all for eliminating tons of obnoxious anti content.