intelligent Flash-blocking browser plugin
intended as an improvement upon current browser plugins such as http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ (Firefox) and http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/14/clicktoflash-makes-the-web-a-nicer-place-to-visit/ (Safari), this would pair a browser plugin with a web application that contained a user-maintained database of websites where people could indicate how annoyed they were with the flash content on it. as the data improved, the plugin could intelligently white-list sites with which users were not annoyed. in this way good design and essential lightweight functionality would still be accessible, but the bad stuff would be disabled by default.
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personal slider for what percentage or # of users must approve/disapprove of a site (either implicitly or explicitly)
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you could also have things whitelisted by default, and then block as people indicated annoyance (with buttons in the browser toolbar itself?) - you might get better data that way
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thanks to Adam Harvey (http://ahprojects.com/) for the idea