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Authored by: ttt on Mon, Jul 7 2008 at 3:48PM PDT

I use the zap plugins bookmarklet. I think it's more fair (and less of a hack) because it at least gives sites a chance to use Flash without annoying the hell out of me. If not, their Flash is gone with one click in my bookmarks bar.

To accomplish a similar thing in all browsers
Authored by: richiesmit on Tue, Jul 8 2008 at 1:14PM PDT

What an odd viewpoint. It's not the user's place to be "fair" to resource hogging developers. With your method, you're still downloading all the cruft...