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

[Jonathan S. Billings]

I think that Mozilla Firebird does some interesting things with Flash, 
where you can replace them with a button that says 'play flash'.  I 
know I have it set up that way in mozilla, that way, if I ever 
encounter a flash ad, it never is loaded.  This is a client-side 
configuration, not exactly what you wanted, but it works well.


On Dec 10, 2003, at 6:08 AM, Russ Schneider wrote:

> 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?
>
> -- 
> [ Russ Schneider (a.k.a. Sugapablo)     ]
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