browser addons - Disabling browsing ads using Flash only

06
2014-04
  • Aeyoun

    I do not want to block all advertisement. However, I do want to get rid of just the ones using Flash. They drain my device’s battery so fast I cannot allow them.

    Any browser extensions that take care of this? AdBlock-blocking-everything seems too dramatic.

    Update: Should specify that I was looking for a blacklist solution rather than having to manually maintain a whitelist.

    • Answers
  • DrakaSAN

    In Firefox:

    You can use FlashBlock wich block, well, Flash, and allow you to make exception (exemple, allow youtube.com, but not 3rd party ad service).

    Better yet would be to use NoScript which block Flash and Javascript, redirection, cross-scripting...

    I do not use other browser but Firefox, so you ll have to ask someone else to know if they (or equivalent) exist on Chromium, Chrome (eurk), Opera or other.

  • Ash

    In addition to DrakaSAN's answer:

    "AdBlock-blocking-everything seems too dramatic."

    AdBlock is pretty configurable, you can choose which sites to block and white not to. Considering that ads are a not-unlikely vector for malware, running ABP and whitelisting sites you trust and/or want to support is a pretty balanced strategy.

    But for safety (as suggested above), NoScript will block Flash stuff by default without any configuration. It will also take out the JavaScript on most sites though, so you need to whitelist ones you use often.


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  • Nathan Fellman

    Opera has content filtering built in, making it easy to block ads. However, to do so you have to mark the content you want and select to block it. Being lazy, I'd much rather download an addon like Adblock in Firefox that already blocks the known offenders. Is there any way to use Adblock's database in Opera so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel and block each set of ads manually?


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  • John Smithers

    Have you tried these filters?

  • DeepeshAgarwal

    A more illustrated example would be : http://www.megaleecher.net/Opera_Adblock

  • Smit Johnth

    You really should not use so many in Opera's built in ad blocker since it searches for every entry if blocked substring is present in the address it is requesting and thus has the complexity O(amount of entries). If you enter about 4k entries there, Opera will slow down like a hell. So it's more like chinese toy swiss knife, mostly made of bronze which looks like real one but breaks as you really use it :)

    Ad blocking plugins like Adblock Plus have much smaller complexity. All you have to do is to download such a plugin for Opera (iirc it's called NoAds) and check its settings - subscriptions you need are already there.