[aklug] Re: saving bandwidth on metered Internet

Flashblock is great! I make use of it's white list feature, where it only
allows flash to load on websites you specify.
Thomas Plastino Martin
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:37 PM, adam bultman <adamb@glaven.org> wrote:

>
>
> Royce Williams wrote:
> > Bruce Hill wrote, on 7/22/2010 5:50 PM:
> >
> >> Here in the poor world we're presently on a plan with 240 mins/month and
> >> 300MB data for $14.86 USD. Incoming calls are free on all plans. And we
> >> can call America directly from the iPhone for about 9c USD ... not bad,
> >> especially considering that with a good signal here, the quality exceeds
> >> that of our land line.
> >>
> >
> > A side note for those of you in similar circumstances: expensive or
> > low-bandwidth connections. A great way to conserve *lots* of Firefox
> > bandwidth is the ImgLikeOpera extension:
> >
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672/
> >
> >
> There's also the lovely Adblock plus:
> http://adblockplus.org/en/
>
> And FlashBlock - doesn't load ANY flash, gives you a little button on
> each flash thing to click before it loads:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/
>
> Flashblock is *awesome* for blocking stupid flash ads that automatically
> load and start cycling. You end up with a lot of boxes waiting for you
> to click them, but I *believe* you can block flash based on sites - I
> haven't used it for a while. Saves you bandwidth, and saves you CPU
> cycles since you won't have a ton of flash ads running, eating up your
> processor.
>
>
> Adam
>
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