Going deaf
I can’t quite remember whether I’ve discussed Romania’s unhealthy obsession with using Flash on Web sites even when it’s completely unwarranted. If not, be sure I’ll get around to it.
In the meantime, you are welcome to
- Annoy yourself and everyone within earshot
- Tell your co-workers you’re goofing off on company time
- Wake the sleeping baby who will now cry all night long
by leaving your speakers on and checking out the oferta from iLink.
Who thought of that? And who approved it? Yeesh!
December 16th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
uuuuu nice song :D
December 17th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
And why a song in English? Can’t imagine going to the site of an American ISP and hearing a song in… French… or German… or…
December 17th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Can I install that extension onto the brain of the person who thought “blaring music by default would be cool!” at iLink?
December 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I have a question: who paid the royalties? What do you mean what royalties?! The song royalties. It the same person who approved it :)
Don’t you know it by now we just love everything American or English. Not so much Aussie and Irish, but we’re working on that.
December 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I’d go with NoScript, myself.
December 19th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
To be clear, it’s not Flash itself I have a problem with. I definitely believe having sound on by default is an affront to and attack on the user, for the great overwhelming majority of websites (to borrow an abused phrase). Given that YouTube is 100% about videos, their model makes sense as an exception. Now, when you couple the hostile error of playing music/sound when users do NOT expect it with the recent years of Romanian web designers/developers having been particularly egregious in their overuse of Flash in general, a great number of Romanian company websites are contributing to a cesspool of nonsense.
Still, I don’t argue against FlashBlock and NoScript methods. They just strip out more than I care to have stripped out.
What I want is a NoAutomaticFlashMusic(ExceptForMyWhitelist) plugin. And then that plugin must work on Firefox, Safari, and Opera. And taste like pineapple.