[Ulrich Kinbote]

Some of the on-line newspapers I read have so many freaking .gif ads that it becomes distracting as hell trying to read anything because the screen is swarming with dancing animals and scrolling text and flashing lights and even -- increasingly -- ads which make loud noise when your cursor passes across them.

I notice that sometimes there are some options if you ctrl/click on these ads:

Zoom
Play
Loop

and so on.

Disabling "Play" freezes them. But then, if you scroll down the page and the ads go out of shot, they're dancing around again when you scroll back up.

Is there anyway to freeze them permanently, or at least for as long as you're on that particular page?

[gnomexp]

Use Saft, or use a different browser - specifically Opera or OmniWeb Beta.

Saft will allow you to permanently block images and their sources. A simple "banning" of *doubleclick* or *ads* will get rid of most images.

OmniWeb automatically searches for well known ad sizes and sources and blocks them, in addition to stopping animations as a global setting.

[TETENAL]

a) It's control-click, not alt-click
b) The ads with sound and the contextual menu you describe are Flash not GIF
c) In Safari they don't start running again after scrolling when you turned off "Play" in the contextual menu.

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

a) It's control-click, not alt-click
b) The ads with sound and the contextual menu you describe are Flash not GIF
c) In Safari they don't start running again after scrolling when you turned off "Play" in the contextual menu.

a) You must have replied before I edited my post.
b) Thanks for clearing that up.
c) What -- you think I'm making this up? I just tested this again. Twice. On certain, but by no means all ads -- they do. Especially the larger horizontal ads at the top of certain webpages and the interactive ads that made a sound when the cursor passes over them. The vertical ads on the side are pretty much ok.

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by gnomexp

Use Saft, or use a different browser - specifically Opera or OmniWeb Beta.

Saft will allow you to permanently block images and their sources. A simple "banning" of *doubleclick* or *ads* will get rid of most images.

OmniWeb automatically searches for well known ad sizes and sources and blocks them, in addition to stopping animations as a global setting.

Thanks.

[edit: answered own question]

[tooki]

For Safari, SafariPlus is the answer. It prevents all Flash from loading, instead showing a dashed-line outline of where the Flash would be -- and lets you load it by clicking in it.

It also blocks GIF animation.

I love it.

tooki

[Ulrich Kinbote]

Originally Posted by tooki

For Safari, SafariPlus is the answer. It prevents all Flash from loading, instead showing a dashed-line outline of where the Flash would be -- and lets you load it by clicking in it.

It also blocks GIF animation.

I love it.

tooki

Sounds great. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks.

[Ulrich Kinbote]

SafariPlus works!

Now I can read the news without a photosensitive epileptic seizure!

Thanks again!

[Curiosity]

If you use Firefox, you can get an extension called "Remove It Permanently", and remove anything you don't like from a web page.

[tooki]

Glad to be of help, Ulrich. SafariPlus is a life saver for so many sites that use excessive Flash (cough myspace cough).

tooki