If the viewers of the annoying ads required the extensions in the first place, they obviously did not care to see them in the first place and aren't going to be giving $0.01 to the people advertising. So who cares if the advertisers collapse?
Which flash sites are those? The only uses for flash I've seen are for annoying animating ads that have SOUND splat in the middle of pages that you only want to read the text in.
Well, I've seen the popups myself and have ZERO sites in my "Allowed Sites" list for popups. I don't remember the specific sites they came from but they were results right on google for some of my search terms for several days.
Well, some sites have gotten by the popup blocker in Firefox and automatically display popup windows upon visiting the site, without clicking a thing on the page. This happens despite not having any sites in my Allowed Sites list. These sites that do this tend to be right on the first page of google results to some keywords I search with. When it happens over and over and over, it becomes extremely annoying and it seems like turning off javascript completely is the only solution to this madness.
Just remember that FlashBlock requires Javascript to be enabled to function (according to their Known Problems page). So, if you regularly browse with javascript disabled, FlashBlock probably won't work for you.
To this day, an unpatched win2k or pre-sp2 winxp machine will become infected within minutes when hooked up directly to a typical high-speed internet connection.
"High-speed" is assuming no one on dial-up got infected with the blaster worm, isn't it?
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If the viewers of the annoying ads required the extensions in the first place, they obviously did not care to see them in the first place and aren't going to be giving $0.01 to the people advertising. So who cares if the advertisers collapse?
Which flash sites are those? The only uses for flash I've seen are for annoying animating ads that have SOUND splat in the middle of pages that you only want to read the text in.
Well, I've seen the popups myself and have ZERO sites in my "Allowed Sites" list for popups. I don't remember the specific sites they came from but they were results right on google for some of my search terms for several days.
Well, some sites have gotten by the popup blocker in Firefox and automatically display popup windows upon visiting the site, without clicking a thing on the page. This happens despite not having any sites in my Allowed Sites list. These sites that do this tend to be right on the first page of google results to some keywords I search with. When it happens over and over and over, it becomes extremely annoying and it seems like turning off javascript completely is the only solution to this madness.
Just remember that FlashBlock requires Javascript to be enabled to function (according to their Known Problems page). So, if you regularly browse with javascript disabled, FlashBlock probably won't work for you.
Why is it that the word-wrapping of your post seems a bit weird? I am seeing line breaks in the middle of sentences.
and claim to never receive it when delivery confirmation and a signature of one of their employees says otherwise.
Wow! One could download 1 gigabyte in less than 3 weeks on dial-up. That 1GB/month cap is a bit too restrictive isn't it?