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[Evan Leibovitch]

Christopher Browne wrote:

> It would provide the about best results for the promise if it was
> implemented as...
>
> main () {
>   exit 1;
> }

If you don't like it, don't use it.

> The primary benefit to having something that "ate" Flash would be if
> it made the irritating popup dialog boxes go away...

Apples and oranges.

The problem with ads is not what they're written in, but where they come 
from and what they do. The combination of the "adblock+" and "filterset 
G" plugins for Firefox works extremely well at reducing them, far better 
than simply a policy of avoiding Flash.

OTOH, many sites now require or depend upon Flash. While it's easy to 
sneer that one wouldn't want to go these sites, most people don't want 
to be so limited.

- Evan

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