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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 12 2016, @09:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the take-it-out-back-and-shoot-it dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

By the end of the year, Google Chrome will block virtually all Flash content and make whatever's left click-to-play by default.

In September, Chrome 53 will kill off all background Flash content, which is about 90 per cent of Flash on the web, according to Google.

Then in December, Chrome 55 will use HTML5 for video, animations, games and similar stuff. If there is no HTML5 available and instead just Flash, you'll be asked to explicitly enable the Adobe plugin to view it.

This will pile immense pressure on web developers to use HTML5 and ditch Flash, because Chrome will deliberately stall the plugin's user experience.

It's effectively throwing Flash out into the cold winter's night. There is no more room at the inn. Google says it prefers HTML5 because it's faster to load than Flash and easier on handhelds' batteries. But the elephant in the room is Flash's dreadful security record: it is a screen door that lets the sewage of the internet seep in and infect computers.

Any Soylentils still have Flash installed on their systems? What keeps you from removing it?


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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday August 12 2016, @02:40PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday August 12 2016, @02:40PM (#387033)

    Have you considered moving somewhere else where everyone you interact with aren't assholes?

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  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday August 12 2016, @05:21PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday August 12 2016, @05:21PM (#387093)

    Probably easier said than done.

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday August 12 2016, @05:27PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Friday August 12 2016, @05:27PM (#387096)

      Never said it would be, but when the mental anguish is so extreme it's all tsubasa can talk about maybe it's worth a shot.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by cmdrklarg on Friday August 12 2016, @06:29PM

    by cmdrklarg (5048) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 12 2016, @06:29PM (#387115)

    The problem with your suggestion is that no matter where you go there are always more assholes, and sometimes they are bigger than the ones you are trying to escape.

    I myself would rather have to deal with an ignorant asshole than a malicious asshole.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @09:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @09:25PM (#387179)

      And some times you cannot move to avoid the assholes, because wherever you go, there you are. If this happens often enough, it behooves one to examine hypotheses: Either the universe is full of assholes, or, you are the common element, and you seems to be making people into assholes by your mere presence. Which of these is more likely?