Well said, that's exactly the problem. They aren't asking us to unblock their ads, they are asking us to unblock our third party cookies in the browser and in F

Well said, that's exactly the problem. They aren't asking us to unblock their ads, they are asking us to unblock our third party cookies in the browser and in Flash. That's just not going to fly. It's the third party cookies that are precisely the problem with unblocking Flash. Adobe has abused our trust with a third party cookie blocking mechanism that just doesn't protect us without essentially making Flash worthless on many sites where we do want to use it. One of the few ways around it is to use NoScript to block JavaScript driving Flash by default, and then allow the ones we want to allow one by one. But why would I allow an ad network to track me across web sites just because I like Ars Technica? So asking us to unblock Flash? Wow, I love arstechnica, but they know better than asking us to do that. We are being asked to accept a particular type of ad technology that is fraught with problems, it's not ads we're blocking, it's widely abused technology that we're blocking. It's not for the pretty animations that Flash is used in many ads, it's for the third party cookies that track across sites. Most people don't even realize how those Flash third party cookies track their movements across the net. But Ars Technica realizes, and so do I. Hell no!