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My current favorite solution for blocking the more annoying ads and increasing security while preserving a low-latency browsing experience: Click-to-play for Flash Player (and all the other plug-ins).

There are lots of gray boxes now all over the web, but I prefer them over resource-hungry attention-grabbing Flash ads.

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It's amazing how well this improves the experience of using the internet with such a small change.

Rarely there are sites that hide their flash elements if they aren't loaded properly, which can make it difficult to click them, but then you just whitelist the website if it's really important.

I switched to this as well. I was running into problems with pages refreshing flash video ads causing memory to leak quite badly if a page was open too long. Once i switched flash to click to play, the problem went away.

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