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OmniWeb and Regex do the job better
Authored by: afb on Mar 16, '05 06:22:19PM

Actually, I found that OmniWeb's blocking didn't work with regex for me—it wouldn't let most of the blacklisted items from taking effect. So I removed the regexes, and then they all worked.

Blocking all .swf files is not a great idea: sites like this one, which unfortunately has flash ads from time to time, I believe, lose out; it blocks all possibly legitimate flash ads; and, in OmniWeb, clicking on a blocked item (stupidly, IMHO) adds it to the whitelist. So if you frequent one of those terrible sites like newgrounds, clicking on many blocked flash files, your whitelist would become filled with all the mind-numbingly dumb animations you watched :-)

Also, in my experience, and correct me if I'm wrong, more and more sites are using javascript (which is annoying to disable, though that is another route) to spawn the flash ads; blocking .swf doesn't seem to work here.

So, block the ad servers or directories instead!

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OmniWeb and Regex do the job better
Authored by: Fuzzle on Mar 18, '05 07:38:55PM

Well, you can just disable on a per site basis blacklist blocking for those sites you want to see flash ads on.

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