[wplug] Telling webservers you don't have flash installed

[Russ Schneider]

I just downloaded Mozilla Firebird for a spin, and noticed something.  
Sites that usually give my Macromedia Flash ads on their pages, detected 
that I didn't yet have Flash installed in Firebird, and replaced them with 
regular GIF ads.

Once I installed Flash, back came the Flash ads.

I HATE Flash ads on web pages.  Is there some way I can fake it so sites 
can't detect whether I have Flash installed?  How do sites like Yahoo 
figure it out?  What info is the browser sending?

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[ Russ Schneider (a.k.a. Sugapablo)     ]
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