One last thing about Flash

[Kendric Beachey]

Oh yeah, I thought I'd share my favorite technique for dealing with Flash ads.  
(That's one of the stupid uses of Flash.)

I use Mozilla so I am used to using "Block images from this server" to get rid 
of ads.  Sometimes this means losing images that are a legitimate part of the 
page.  Oh well, I figure if the site is willing to put their real graphics 
and their ad graphics in the same bucket, they've lost their image-showing 
privileges.  It's the words I came to see anyway.

To get rid of the ads in Flash that are now popping up like fruit flies, I 
like to right-click and uncheck "Play" and "Loop", and then find a part of 
the picture that doesn't have much on it, and repeatedly right-click and 
"Zoom In" on that section until I just have a rectangle of one color.

The only problem is that some Flash ads now seem to have an abbreviated 
right-click menu so you don't get those options.  Curses!  Foiled again!
-- 
Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com

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