Shockwave Flash

Unlike most people, I don't mind internet ads. I know the ads pay for the stuff I'm reading/playing with. It's all good. With some sites, I even click through ads, or head to those sites before I make any Amazon purchases.

Yesterday I joined most of the rest of the planet and installed AdBlocker on Chrome and Explorer anyway. Not so much because I'd suddenly turned against internet advertising, but because pretty much every single one of those ads now comes loaded with Shockwave Flash, which means that Shockwave Flash is sometimes running four to six times per page; if I have two tabs open, and I often do, that doubles it. And kills my laptop computer, which can apparently handle Windows 8.1, or Shockwave Flash, but not both.

The computer is now running smoothly.

And advertisers? Your insistence on having ads that blink and move and dance around means that I'm not seeing them. Your loss. I'd advise you to at least wait until Windows 8.1 works through its issues....though, to be fair, that might take a long, long while.