I had not realised how much Flash content was imbedded into web pages until I turned it off.

I installed the plugin for Safari that turns Flash off. Instead of those annoying adverts I now get a plain grey box with “FLASH” written on it. I click the box to play the Flash. Or not. Mostly not.

Look here for the ClickToFlash page. Similar plugins are available for Firefox and maybe IE.

Why should you care about this?

It costs you money. Yes really, your hard earned cash is being frittered away by Flash. Flash makes your CPU work harder, it takes more energy, so that’s electricity you are paying for. It takes up bandwidth on the web, bandwidth you indirectly pay for with your broadband subscription. If you surf on a portable using 3G WiFi from the cellular network you are directly paying for the bandwidth.

Your browsing experience will be much faster without Flash.

If we all block the Flash perhaps the perpetrators of this crime will get the message and stop putting Flash all over the web.

BAN FLASH!