So long, and thanks for all the Flash

KIA

KIA

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This morning, Adobe announced their plans to end support for Flash in late 2020. For Flash developers this will mean transitioning to HTML, as Chrome will increasingly require explicit permission from users to run Flash content until support is removed completely at the end of 2020.

HTML is faster, safer, and more power efficient than Flash and works across desktop and mobile. Three years ago, over 80% of Chrome daily desktop users visited sites with Flash. Today only 17% of users visit sites with Flash and we’re continuing to see a downward trend as sites move to HTML.

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https://blog.chromium.org/2017/07/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-flash.html
https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html
 
Didn't they say they were killing it off a while back? Or was that just ending support for it.

I've had chrome on click to run for flash and can't remember the last time I visited a site where it actually needed flash to run.
 
I've had chrome on click to run for flash

first world problem - post-flash, I had not yet investigated a (click to run) replacement for html5,
noscript seems to already fixit in firefox (main browser) and according to
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3119...refox-opera-but-not-edge-explorer-safari.html
I will neuter chrome (currently secondary browser) with an add-on.

But for Edge (use it rarely), appears no silver bullet, any suggestions. ?
following adblock comments in reddit may try hostman, which would make control of hosts file a bit easier and benefit other browsers. (although win10 side-steps hosts file for some sites)


For youtube videos, although these are already on click to play, would like video references to be replaced by just the title of the video (eg. OC youtube thread), without even getting any frames from the video, thus minimising network traffic.
 
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