salzan
Experienced Optimist
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join:2004-01-08
WA State
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Re: Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers
I especially like this line:
"Any abuse of this technology is not welcomed by us," Tanembaum said. "We believe people should use this technology responsibly. If people don't want cookies in place, then (their browsers) shouldn't be tagged."
Yeah right! Of course nobody will misuse this technology. 
Unfortunately, this will affect my kid's setup far more than it will me, as most of her favorite sites use flash for their games. So I guess it's time to go on the "Flash Security Learning Curve" to come up with settings that are secure and yet still usable. What a PITA. (again) |
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B
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
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This appears to be a real company that does various kinds of banner ad work.
I swear that the following really appears on their web site, concerning a different web ad product they sell:
Shoskele technology is original. It completely blurs the line between Internet content and targeted messaging, thus being intrusively unobtrusive. Of course, if the site weren't useless written in Flash, I could give you a URL citation!
Macromedia should really try to shut these guys down. This can only give Flash a bad name.
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Martinus
Premium
join:2001-08-06
EU
4 edits | said by B  :thus being intrusively unobtrusive. Intrusively unobtrusive?
And that's something they brag about? Do they really mean it or are they just using buzz words to get customers?
Edit: Come to think of it. This sentence is either written by a lawyer used to write meaningless stuff or by their flash guy who thought he came with the ultimate immortal sentence - cogito ergo sum, epur si muove, intrusively unobtrusive, etc -.
Anyhow. It doesn't make any sense at all.
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triturus
@abbott.com | How can Spyware Blaster be set up to block flash - is that only with the pro version? Thanks for any advice  |
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spooler0
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join:2004-11-17
| said by triturus:How can Spyware Blaster be set up to block flash - is that only with the pro version? Go to tools/flash killer in Spyware Blaster. Did not know there was a "Pro version" of Spyware Blaster.
Curious if owlbet is doing something more to totally keep Flash off his systems? |
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B
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
| reply to Martinus
said by Martinus :Edit: Come to think of it. This sentence is either written by a lawyer used to write meaningless stuff or by their flash guy who thought he came with the ultimate immortal sentence - cogito ergo sum, epur si muove, intrusively unobtrusive, etc -. Well, yeah, that was my point. But it's not lawyereze. They "mean" every word of it.
Remember, these people are in the BUSINESS of advertising to people who don't want advertising. Their specialty is coming up with really annoying ads even if you've turned off every last scripting function you've got.
Their pitiful bragging here is just like the spammers who postulate, with straight faces, that people REALLY REALLY do want unsolicited ads but don't know it yet.
To spooler0 -- maybe Owlbet just doesn't install Flash? Personally I use both AdBlock and the Flash Click to View extension (later versions known as FlashBlock). But once you've run a particular piece of Flash content, you still need to "worry" about this new issue.
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Jim Gurd
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join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI
 ·Comcast
1 edit | reply to spooler0
said by triturus:
Curious if owlbet is doing something more to totally keep Flash off his systems?
Flash can be uninstalled. Go to Macromedia's site and download the uninstaller. It works pretty well. Then add macromedia.com to your restricted sites to prevent the ActiveX control from being downloaded again when browsing a flash enabled site. |
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Jim Gurd
Premium
join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI
·Comcast
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said by B :To spooler0 -- maybe Owlbet just doesn't install Flash? Personally I use both AdBlock and the Flash Click to View extension (later versions known as FlashBlock). But once you've run a particular piece of Flash content, you still need to "worry" about this new issue. -- B Is there a free version of flash click to view for IE or just Firefox? |
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noflash
@sfldmi.ameritech
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jaykaykay
| I have been using a tiny standalone utility TurnFlash that works great.
»www.nirsoft.net/utils/tflash2.html
However, AFAIK, it is IE only. |
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Jim Gurd
Premium
join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI
·Comcast
| I tried it but you must close and restart your browser for the change to take effect. I have a popup blocker that also stops flash but it forces you to close and restart IE in order to enable or disable Flash. I was hoping for a way to do it on the fly and then just refresh the page. So far no luck. |
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hpguru
Curb Your Dogma
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join:2002-04-12
| said by Jim Gurd :I was hoping for a way to do it on the fly and then just refresh the page. So far no luck. Proxomitron can do it. If I recall correctly one of the default filters will convert flash objects to links.
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