I've had problem with these suckerz too, recently. Suddenly all Youtube videos had no sound. After some searching for help I deleted and reinstalled the Flash Player. It worked, although the program said the installation was unsuccesful.

OK, if you are using flashblock, can I assume that you are on a mozilla based browser such as firefox or seamonkey?

If you are, then you also need to be running the “Better privacy” plugin as well. I will not promise that it will prevent flashblock from being Akilled. However, the fact of the matter is that Adobe was officially anti-consumer a long time ago and most people did not know about it. Here is the deal:

Let's say that you also use a cookie blocking plugin of whatever variety. Well, it does what it does and it does not do what it doesn't. Sadly, one of the things that it doesn't do is anything at all about what Adobe has been doing for a couple of years to render your cookie blocking essentially useless.

Adobe pretty much reinvented the whole concept of the cookie but changed the details just enough to bypass what you are doing about the matter. Any and all Adobe software stores cookies in a folder that your anti-cookie system can't find.

Since Adobe products are everywhere and most web sites use at least one Adobe program somewhere (don't forget web sites where even as little as a single page was made in Dream Weaver), you have been accumulating Adobe specific hidden cookies for a while now.

Better Privacy is one of the only programs that can find and kill those Adobe specific cookies. If you don't have it, you should get it.

Interesting Answers, and intriguing.

But it takes more than tracking cookies to make me even give a shit. Track me all you want, website-hosts! It's no thorn in my side.

Adobe can still kiss my ass, only it takes more than "privacy invasions" to make me give a shit about whatever scummy deals people make behind closed doors.