I don't think toggle Flash will stop all Flash Marc, but if it does the job
to your satisfaction, then that's good enough.
I answered a question from a Flash Developer in another forum and it
occurred to me that Flash is about 10 years old now. I was tempted to tell
him he was wasting his time.
You may notice that some sites are smart enough to detect that you are
blocking flash and will serve up an animated gif instead. Your hosts file
blocking of the ad server domains will stop that.
You are also reducing your Carbon footprint by blocking Flash.
Psst... you can do the same with Silverlight and Quicktime.
"Marc" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks to you all, guys! These were really good tips, one good working
> tool I
> did not know is "toggle Flash", which works fine (it save you the change
> in
> properties, the author had the same problems I described).
>
> Additionally I found a fantastic site of a guy who hosts a list of
> adservers
> to modify your host-file, which I did additionally, and voila, the web
> gets
> sooo peaceful suddenly :O) ..it's on pgl.yoyo.org/adservers
>
> An additional fact beyond annoyance is that those kind of ads decrease
> battery life in laptops due to CPU-load; there are some tests on PC's and
> Mac-Books on the web on that topic. Some measured double(!) battery-time.
>
> Cheers, Marc
>
> "Marc" wrote:
>
>> I get asked the question more and more (I do (User)trainings for
>> MS-/SW-Products) "How to block all those stupid / annoying, flashing,
>> moving
>> flash Ads in Internet Explorer?"
>>
>> The alternative for them (or anybody) is switching to another browser
>> (like
>> Orca for example, where this is easily possible) so I need a IE solution
>> to
>> keep them with MS Products, but I do not know a way to solve this.
>>
>> Can anybody help me with advice or at least refer to an external program,
>> if
>> there is no IE-internal way to switch of flash? (but I guess/hope there
>> is
>> one)
>>
>> Thanks, Marc
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