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Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by Survey_Sez »

AlphaSite wrote: post #56
luxflux wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitch is the only thing keeping Flash on my system, and as soon as they make the switch to HTML5 video I'll be uninstalling it completely.

Twitch has run over HTML5 for the better part of a year (maybe longer).

The controls and chat were upgraded to HTML5 last year but the video will not be converted from Flash to HTML5 until Q2 this year.

This was one of the major announcements made during CEO's keynote at TwitchCon. http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/09/twitchcon-2015-keynote-product...

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by Steko »

Survey_Sez wrote: post #61
AlphaSite wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitch has run over HTML5 for the better part of a year (maybe longer).

The controls and chat were upgraded to HTML5 last year but the video will not be converted from Flash to HTML5 until Q2 this year. This was one of the major announcements made during CEO's keynote at TwitchCon. http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/09/twitchcon-2015-keynote-product...

OS X and iOS streams use HLS (append /hls to url) and you can get the html5 video in various ways (append &html5 or [1]).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Kappa/comments/3l01q4/complete_twit...

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by atomic_cheese »

luxflux wrote: post #54
obelisk_ wrote: post #51

I haven't had the Flash plugin since 2012 and only a few couple of times I've encountered something I wanted to use which required Flash since when I stopped having Flash. In every case where Flash was required I simply Googled the relevant keywords and found what I was looking for provided by other non-Flash sites.

Twitch is the only thing keeping Flash on my system, and as soon as they make the switch to HTML5 video I'll be uninstalling it completely.

If you use Livestreamer and an IRC client, you can run Twitch streams outside your browser. That's what I've been doing - I haven't had flash installed since that cross-platform RCE bug late last year.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by TD-Linux »

luxflux wrote: post #54
obelisk_ wrote: post #51

I haven't had the Flash plugin since 2012 and only a few couple of times I've encountered something I wanted to use which required Flash since when I stopped having Flash. In every case where Flash was required I simply Googled the relevant keywords and found what I was looking for provided by other non-Flash sites.

Twitch is the only thing keeping Flash on my system, and as soon as they make the switch to HTML5 video I'll be uninstalling it completely.

Livestreamer works well for Twitch.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by spacehome »

kentonv wrote: post #47
Spare_account wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which ad blocker do you use on mobile?

For Google ads specifically? https://contributor.google.com/

Wow. Their highest tier is $10/month to see 25-50% fewer ads? That seems a bit steep for the minimal reduction you're seeing.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by ariwilson »

spacehome wrote: post #68
kentonv wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For Google ads specifically? https://contributor.google.com/

Wow. Their highest tier is $10/month to see 25-50% fewer ads? That seems a bit steep for the minimal reduction you're seeing.

I think they're accounting for the fact that Google doesn't control all ads across the web.
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