For me, if it moves, it gets blocked. I try to leave stuff like the nice little google ads that are just plain text (it's entertaining to see how in context they can get). If it comes down to AT not making enough money, I'll spend 5 minutes a week with adblock disabled just clicking on every ad or I'll ask for an ad free subscription but I won't have anything moving on a webpage.
Lol. You sound like you work in the marketing industry. Last I heard, people didn't put ads on sites to make them more enjoyable for readers, they do it to make money.
) when you buy tv shows on dvd and they've taken the commercials out?
My guess would be that you should stop using hosts file blocking and just stick with adblock. It's a far more elegant solution.
What version of adblock are you using? Did you bring along the version you had installed from 1.0.x? The old stuff is known not to work with 1.5. Last I heard (although I've been out of it for a while) is that Adblock Plus is the one to be using.
Flashblock is a ff extension that replaces all flash objects with a little button that you click if you actually want to see it. It's kinda nice since the vast majority of things aren't worth seeing but you still know they're there, just in case, unlike with adblock, where you frequently can't tell what you're missing or why.
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