Post #12612 by hanford_lemoore on Sat, Nov 2, 2002 2:09 PM

Okay, let me get on my little soapbox here:

So, 2 weeks ago, after getting beaten over the head with a bunch of annoying Flash ads on Yahoo, I finally have had enough.

The days of "Whoa, check out this cool Flash site!" are long gone, and it occured to me that probably 90% of my interaction with Flash was for ads, with those "cover-the-web-page, play-some-annoying-sound, and-force-you-to scan-all-over-to-find-the-little-close-button" really, really getting to me. I decided that removing Flash to get rid of those was worth it.

So I removed the Flash player from my PC. I did it by using this link here from Macromedia's own site:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/playerfaq.htm#remove

So far it's been great. Using My Yahoo and Yahoo Mail is MUCH better. I don't get any of those annoying video/audio/cover-the-web-page ads, and I've only found a few sites so far that didn't have a non-flash alternative, and those sites I would not classify as "must-read" sites. The biggest problem so far has been when I come across a site that needs it, a window pops up asking trying to install Flash, and I need to click on "No". But this doesn't happen often on the sites I frequent.

I know, I know, I need to remove the Flash animation from Tikiroom.com's front page. I'm working on that.

Hanford