[Linux-disciples] Macromedia

[Adam Kessel]

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:53:05AM -0700, Karl Sokol wrote:
> Relatively trivial, but...

Not too trivial for linux-disciples! We at linux-disciples value your
privacy highly.

> Is there any way to easily turn Flash on and off.  I
> want to have it accessable, but I am sick of seeing
> ads on yahoo.  It really takes the fun out of Mozilla.

There are various ways to do this, but I think the easiest would be to
use privoxy.  Assuming you are talking about a linux box, just apt-get
privoxy (for a windows box you can get privoxy from http://privoxy.org).
Then set your browser to use localhost port 8118 as the proxy server.

Privoxy has a setting to block flash for certain sites.  Once you've
installed privoxy and set up your browser, you can configure it by going
to http://p.p in the browser window.  The particular setting is "filter
shockwave-flash".

It's a great tool in general.
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Adam Kessel
http://bostoncoop.net/adam

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