My first two weeks without Flash

Two weeks ago I used  IE 6's new "Manage Addins..." to disable the Flash plugin.  I was worried about some of the content I'd miss.  After two weeks, my experience has been that I have not missed much.  Here is a short list of what I've noticed without Flash:

  • The Good:
    • Stopped getting annoying Flash-based ads that were hijacking my web-browsing experience
    • SlashDot is working again.  I was getting flash-based ads that were forwarding me to other sites.
  • The Bad (sorta):
    • Several sites interactive stuff isn't available to me, including:

Overall I am happy.  The good certainly outweighs the bad IMHO . What's your experience?

Comments:

I tried this a couple years ago with the old hide the ocx trick. Flash was so pervasive even then that I had to reactivate it very shortly after. Too many sites used it for navigation or content I really needed.

For a while it was looking like becoming the next web platform. Ajax probably saved us from that fate.

Paul (Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 )

Sounds rather drastic, when you could just use Firefox with the AdBlock plug-in to block the unpleasant Flash but keep the good stuff.

Mark (Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 )


 



 
Save Cancel