To: Doren who wrote (730 ) 6/1/2012 11:59:33 PM From: zax Respond to It seems a bit extreme, but I certainly do understand how annoying ads can be. I've been known to go to great lengths in blocking annoying flash content or in avoiding being tracked as well. IE lets you also enable or disable flash (or any plugin) on a per-site basis. Perhaps Safari gives you per-site control like that over plugins? IE also has this great "Tracking protection" feature; there are many third-party actively manged lists that this feature can consume; you import these lists that block the ad agencies' flash content or anyone else who tries to track you via content pumped in from outside sites. Very useful. I use it to block Google (Youtube) from tracking me as I go from site to site, and then over-ride it (a one time action on a per-site basis) on sites where there is off-site video I actually want to watch. I never stayed log into Google or YouTube (actually I almost never log in to them) also to try to prevent tracking, and I use Chrome for one purpose: when I'm on fb. That way I can keep Chrome logged in to fb, and IE logged out, so fb can't track me as I do my other surfing; fb does the exact same BS as Google; compiling information about everywhere you visit. Most sites I visit don't seem to abuse flash (going full browser screen, moving the content, auto-playing audio) and when they do, I just tend stop visiting those sites. MS is having IE10 by default set tracking preference (that thing Google was abusing) to opt-out, a first for any browser. I get the feeling that Opera is going to have some pretty permissive defaults, like Chrome, if fb acquires them; their business models are both largely ad driven. You know what that means they are selling; you.
