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by delecti 4066 days ago
What works for me in Chrome is to disable plugins by default. It seems to work universally, including for Bloomberg.

I don't even bother running an ad-block, because disabling plugins is so effective at suppressing annoyances.
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orbitur 4066 days ago
Chrome has made this worse recently, though. I disabled Flash more than a year ago on an older computer, and all that's required is clicking to enable.

When I recently installed Chrome on a newer computer, the new method is Ctrl+Click to get a context menu, and then selecting "Run this plugin". Not sure why they made it more complicated, and I wish I knew how to get the older behavior my older computer has somehow retained while Chrome has been auto-updating.

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thezilch 4066 days ago
I really appreciate what Chrome did. People got clever and would move their player (or triggers) in front of your regular clicks to get their annoyance to play. They can't do that with right-click and a left-click in a context menu.

At least, that is my assumption, and if not, they should consider that as a positive outcome for me.

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delecti 4065 days ago
Go to a page with an unloaded flash element. On the far right side of the address bar there will be a puzzle piece with a red 'X' over it, click that and you can enable plugins on that page for that session only.

It's actually a slight improvement, because previously you'd have to reload a page to do that.

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