Lousy Macromedia

[Ajax]

Is there a way to disable those annoying Flash adds on web sites, but keep Macromedia around in case you need it for something useful?

[Rob(QG)]

Some pop-up stoppers have the ability to disable flash ads.
This one for instance: http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/fs.htm

Alternatively use Firefox for surfing flash ridden sites and don't install the flash plugin. That way, you can use IE when you want to see flash, and Firefox when you don't.

If you disable ActiveX in IE, that stops the flash ads, but does give an annoying warning dialog on every page that has them.

[isochar]

www.admuncher.com does a great job of removing 99% of advertisements. Anything that it misses can be covered by a custom rule.

[agallag]

Or get Avant Browser. It's a third party front end to IE that adds tabs and popup blocking, plus a button to disable flash whenever you want.

[Wombat]

The perfect answer for this is to use Firefox with the "flash click to view" plugin. I have flash installed and working, but all flash animations only show up as a gray box on web pages. If I want to see the animation, I click on the gray box and the flash loads.

[Kurt]

@agallag: looks interesting...no spyware, no ad-ware...

[Marshmallowman]

I vouch for firefox and the "flash click to view" extension....It has been saving my sanity for almost a year now.

[leech]

What are you thinking still using IE? Firefox all the way. Actually I dont' have that extension installed and I've never had issues with flash pop-up ads annoying me. Probably because I have them all set to be blocked.... the only times I see pop-ups at all anymore is when I HAVE to use IE for certain sites....

Leech