Thanks to Macromedia and their crappy Mac plugin, I often see CPU usage for my browser (doesn't matter which one) run as high as seventy percent when ads like the ones at Ars are on the screen.

As the Web 2.0 tenets of usability and personalization have moved from aspiration to expectation across the Internet, Flash ads have become not only a user nuisance but a poor business decision for ...

I hate this idiot flash ad that opens up large and then shrinks. With Mozilla, if you don't click the damn link before the fucking ad shrinks, none of the links work. They never seemed to have these ...

Ad impression rates for the two Java-based streaming ad types that Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance tracked during November 2002, Bluestreak (1,556,000) and Klipmart’s Klip-Ad (553,000) are meager when ...

Google’s announcement that Chrome will freeze non-essential Flash content on Web pages will give Internet users some respite from the ongoing threats posed by malicious Flash ads online. The company ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but Greystripe, a San Francisco-based rich media advertising platform for mobile content claims to have developed ads including Flash IAB medium rectangles and ...

Chrome developers have announced that an upcoming version of Chrome will prevent video ads from automatically playing when a website loads. The new feature has already been pushed out to beta builds ...

The solution seems simple enough: just start developing animated display ads in HTML5 instead of Flash and push them out the door, right? Not so fast. Making the move to HTML5 involves some important ...