How to Slay Snap Previews

Once upon a time I tried Snap.com's previews on my web sites. It sounded like a great idea. In theory, that is. Perhaps some folks like it, but I found it way too distracting. Every time I moved my pointer, it hit links and Snap! Snap! Snap! Haaaated It!

Of Zen and Computing felt our pain and posted an article here explaining how to slay those startling Snaps for good.

What you need to do is to use Firefox with the AdBlock Plus extension. Once you've restarted Firefox, go to Tools>AdBlock Plus. Add spa.snap.com/* to AdBlock’s set of rules. Then restart Firefox once more. That's it! Snap is dead!

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