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Adblock and Flash player 9

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:00 am
by DavidAB
Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4 doesn't seem to work by right-clicking on Flash payer 9 banners. Is there an update or is there something I'm doing wrong?

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:25 am
by rick752
You have to go into Adblock Plus' options and turn on "Show tabs on flash and java". It will present you with a tab on the flash item. Click it to block it.

Welcome David AB :)

Any other way?

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:40 am
by DavidAB
Thanks for the info.

Is there any way I can block flash items without having an ugly tab on all the flash items? I go to a lot of design oriented sites so don't want to block most flash items or have anything visually affecting the design just sometimes want to block some particularly annoying advertisements on some commercial sites.

Re: Any other way?

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:28 am
by chewey
DavidAB wrote:Is there any way I can block flash items without having an ugly tab on all the flash items?
You can open the "blockable elements" list, sort by element type by clicking on the top of the column and
then look for elements of type object - in most cases, the one one wants to block is easy to spot.

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:59 am
by Wladimir Palant

Re: Any other way?

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:30 pm
by rick752
chewey wrote: You can open the "blockable elements" list, sort by element type by clicking on the top of the column and
then look for elements of type object - in most cases, the one one wants to block is easy to spot.
That's usually the way I find them too.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:58 am
by sheepy
Me too. Ctrl+Shift+B and they are all there to be killed. :twisted:

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:36 am
by DavidAB
OK, sounds more tedious to block them than to leave them in that case. I guess its because flash has its own right click menu that you can't do it the simple way that its done for images?

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:58 am
by Wladimir Palant
Yes.