if you're using firefoxthen flashblock works fine. it leaves a little play button in the middle of the video instead of actually playing it. saves acres of bandwidth and a lot of sanity. and your eardrums when some website decides it wants to play some shittily compressed flash ad at full volume.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
boris the spider,
Sat 1 Nov 2008, 14:16,
archived)
You, sirare a scholar and a gentleman
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loonybean giving as good as he gets since,
Sat 1 Nov 2008, 14:26,
archived)