Flickr spaceball.gif hack

Are you sick of that annoying spaceball.gif overlay that attempts to stop you saving “protected” images on Flickr.com? There’s a really simple way around it.

• 1. Install Adblock Plus for Firefox
• 2. Go to a Flickr page with a “protected” spaceball.gif image
• 3. Right click on the image, and select “Adblock Image”

  

• 4. In the Adblock custom field, add “*spaceball.gif” (without the quotes).

  

• 5. Click “Add Filter”. Reload. Done.

Once you’ve done that, Adblock Plus will prevent spaceball.gif from loading – which uncovers the image underneath, allowing you to right click it, view it, save it, whatever.