any way of blocking advertising movies on my browser

Factual Questions
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on either firefox or explorer, is there a way to block a movie advert loading up? I find them hogging bandwidth and distracting, and becoming more prevalent. (OK I know that if one visits a free site then perhaps one should put up with them, its just that usually one doesnt have a choice or forewarning before clicking on a link). I am talking about the ones embedded in a page, not the ones one has to watch before entering a page.
thanks

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Try the Adblock Plus addon for Firefox. It has an automatically-updating list of advertising providers that it blocks, so many ads will never appear at all.

And to deal with the few that escape the blacklist, there’s also Flashblock, which will block all Flash movies until you click on them.

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I don’t use Adblock, as I find ‘block images from…’ sufficient. I do use Flashblock myself, as despite tooling the tubes with a dual 2Ghz Xeon, I find the inefficiency of Flash combined with the proliferation of flash ads can slow browsing to a crawl.

If I specifically want to run some Flash, I just click the button where the flash object would otherwise be.

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Even better than Flashblock is NoScript.

It stops java until you specifically allow that server. You can choose to only allow the server you’re visiting, and disallow any of the advertising servers.

With NoScript and AdBlock Plus, I don’t see ads… At all. Not even a blank space where the ad should be.

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I use Noscript, but you still need Flashblock when you want to see some embeded flash play, and not all the rest on the page. Adblock will take care of many of the ads. All are Firefox addons. Don’t you love these sites thathave started showing the main flash video, with an advertising flash playing that makes obnoxious noises at the same time? I couldn’t handle those sites without Flashblock.

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Sometimes you want Javascript and Flash, though. It does add to the experience or is necessary for many sites.

I use AdBlock for Firefox and it’s wonderful. I never have any problems using JS or Flash when needed, but it blocks all the ads (even the SDMB ads :P)

I do notice that it blocks ads on one of MY sites (that I created) which are just basic JPG files. I figured out it was because my images were in a file called /ads/ and AdBlock was smart enough to figure it out.

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thanks for the replies. Adblock here I come

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Make sure you get Adblock Plus - It needs almost no configuration at all.