[tlug] Re: blocking adverts (Was: [OT] Say _no_ to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard)

["Gernot Hassenpflug" <aikishugyo@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> By the way, the Hans Reiser story was really sad, but the overlay ads
> on Wired are just *way* offensive.  I just closed them and plan to
> postpone my purchases of the goods advertised into the next century
> (and my next visit to Wired to be its funeral) but what's the
> technology?  How can you prevent them from appearing?

In Firefox and derivatives, I do the following:

1. right-click on any advert images and block them (unless they happen
to originate from the actual site, which is rare I imagine).

2. for Flash I install the Flashblock plugin
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433]: it doesn't
actually remove the "block" on the page, but it puts a mark there
which you can press to start the animation, but if you don't then you
never get that Flash animation cluttering up your page with
epilepsy-inducing go-go hysteria.
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Gernot Hassenpflug