When I try to open certain sites, such as the WMAL one, it jumps around and flashes and doesn’t load, as if I were hitting the reload button continuously, although I am not. I did a little snooping around, got onto the site by finding a link that didn’t have any moving graphics, and at one point got a message that said I didn’t have cookies enabled, which is not the case. Anyway, it is annoying. It ticks me off to do something recommend by Apple to make performance better, and it ends up being worse.
Flash is a good tool, but so is a hammer. Most Flash programmers are the equivalent of a five year old with a hammer walking around in the Alzheimer's wing of the nursing home.
I find this to be true with many programming technologies. You can do incredibly cool stuff with them, but the first thing that happens is some bozo working for an advertising company asks "Okay, how can we use this technology to annoy the ever loving crap out of everyone?"