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On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 08:16 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Fraser Tweedale wrote:
> > Gary Kline wrote:
> >>     I'd feel real warm+funny nuking the ads that churn my uprocessor.
> > 
> > You can use the Firefox FlashBlock extension which blocks all flash 
> > objects, and allows you to run only the ones you want.
> 
> xpi-noscript is even better IMHO.  Blocks flash, javascript and all
> forms of embedded media.  Will remember the sites where you *do* want
> that stuff, or it will let you turn it on temporarily.  It's in ports:
> www/xpi-noscript  Not guaranteed to block every advert, but the ones it
> does let through will be relatively inoffensive.
> 

II'll try both, thanks, gentlemen.  There *are* a few sites that firefox
interpreted as advertising that helped me design custom T-shirt logos,
caps, sweatshirts, &c! Undo-ing that "Adblock" was a further exercise in
learning _prudence_. :-)

gary

> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
>