Flash ads are the moral equivalent of hot linking

Subjectively (I casually watch htop), since I recently installed the FlashBlock plugin in Firefox, my CPU use and therefore the fan use has gone down noticeably on my laptop.

I don't block ads, just flash. And I see that a lot of the ads, on sites that I tab up and leave for later, are/were flash.

I don't mind ads (much), but if you're going to over use my machine for your ad, just to make it annoyingly noticeable or to track me, well, that's just wrong.

FlashBlock: ask for it by name.