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[Sysman]

I'm using 10.6.3 snow leopard, installed fine - I thought the fans were broken I've not heard them all day...

I ended up grabbing the beta, and that installed OK on Leopard.

The fans weren't a problem in winter, but now it's warmer (well it was today), their noise is starting to irritate me.

[scooterscot]

Has anyone tried it on either Leopard (PPC) or Tiger?

Both installations fail for me, but don't say why.

Edit:The Common Problems/Questions with ClickToFlash is eff-all use.

I'm using 10.6.3 snow leopard, installed fine - I thought the fans were broken I've not heard them all day...

[Sysman]

There's the Safari Flash blocker ClickToFlash - I haven't used it myself, but others speak well of it, including John Gruber of Daring Fireball.

Has anyone tried it on either Leopard (PPC) or Tiger?

Both installations fail for me, but don't say why.

Edit:The Common Problems/Questions with ClickToFlash is eff-all use.

[d000hg]

...or, like many, your client is still using IE6.

CAn't you manually add URLs to the blocked list even in IE6? You might have to do them 1 by 1, but you could could block big ad companies quickly.

[Paddy]

Trouble is the advertising companies get too greedy and let anyone in with obnoxious animated, screen covering rubbish, then on top ofthat you have the adverts slipped in by the "Russian Business Network". No sane person should be browsing WITHOUT an ad blocking setup.

Or even an epileptic fit by looking at that effing football. I’ve just blocked it off

[NotAllThere]

Only if you are too stupid to install AdBlock Plus for yer FireFox 2...

...or, like many, your client is still using IE6.

[Babbage]

Trouble is the advertising companies get too greedy and let anyone in with obnoxious animated, screen covering rubbish, then on top ofthat you have the adverts slipped in by the "Russian Business Network". No sane person should be browsing WITHOUT an ad blocking setup.

[NickFitz]

I use this Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much) to cut out the junk ads on many sites with IE8 browser when I can't use Firefox and Adblock.

Dan Pollock's done a really good job with that hosts file over the years, although some cruft has built up - for example, goatse.cx hasn't been the foul and wretched thing it used to be since it was originally closed down.

Then again I may be too hasty to judge: a quick look at what's currently hosted there makes me wonder if the custodians of the Christmas Island ccTLD might not be getting careless again. It's clearly engineered to suggest forthcoming SKA news (not AtW's SKA, obviously, but the goatse one) but they didn't even get the date functions working properly: looks like email address harvesting by spammers to me

Perhaps it's better if such subdomains are indeed cast forever into... well, a black hole

[TykeMerc]

I use this Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much) to cut out the junk ads on many sites with IE8 browser when I can't use Firefox and Adblock.

[NickFitz]

thanks nick, what a relief

bloomin marvellous cheers nick

np

[Moscow Mule]

Thanks Nick, what a relief

Bloomin Marvellous Cheers Nick

[scooterscot]

There's the Safari Flash blocker ClickToFlash - I haven't used it myself, but others speak well of it, including John Gruber of Daring Fireball.

Thanks Nick, what a relief

[Fred Bloggs]

Only if you are too stupid to install AdBlock Plus for yer FireFox 2.

That's a lot better now, thanks.

[d000hg]

Would rather do that than allowing heat from my laptop heat up my entire bloodstream from the overrun GPU...

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Donate!!!

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Money!

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Seriously funny post.

Exactly why it is both worth considering, and should be voluntary. Other forums give extra stuff for paying members, like some online space (for hosting images) or ability to support fancier avatars/custom signatures/etc.

[NickFitz]

I'd rather use safari -

There's the Safari Flash blocker ClickToFlash - I haven't used it myself, but others speak well of it, including John Gruber of Daring Fireball.