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Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by jhasse »

Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd wrote: post #125
Sophira wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I'm missing something. Why not just install the Flash player from Adobe?

I'm not the person you asked, but here's my reasons. I'm on Linux and there no longer is a supported version of Flash by Adobe. (Apparently there is some NPAPI to Pepper bridge though, to get Chrome's Flash working in other browsers.) I already uninstalled before that, because I wanted to force HTML5 for sites that dynamically switch between Flash and HTML5 and because I wanted to nudge more sites to support HTML5 by…

> I'm on Linux and there no longer is a supported version of Flash by Adobe

I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu with Flash (flashplugin-installer) and it's still receiving updates. It's an older version, but it has been working fine with every Flash site I've visited so far.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by qubitcoder »

flo_23 wrote: post #124
Spare_account wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which ad blocker do you use on mobile?

I'm using Blockr on iOS. It also blocks those cookie warnings! http://blockr-app.com

On iOS, using Weblock and Purify in tandem gives you two distinct methods of ad blocking. Albeit, the more powerful blocker is WiFi only.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by kalleboo »

pippy wrote: post #8

One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn't get anywhere.

Another old format in that space is/was MHTML - a MIME document with all the resources needed for a webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by gtk40 »

tyingq wrote: post #21

I suppose this means dropping it altogether (like from Chrome) can't be too far away. My only regret with that would be that we use flash as a way to allow one-button copy to the clipboard (using this http://zeroclipboard.org/ ). We had tried non-flash solutions, but none of them worked. This sounds like it might work https://clipboardjs.com/ , so I guess I'll be adding a backlog item to look at it.

An internal app we use at work requires an extension to do one button clipboard in Chrome and Firefox. And if you're using another browser, you're out of luck. I use it enough that I have the extension, but now the version we have and the extension it supports isn't "signed" in Firefox, so I have to make an about:config change.

This is all for a password manager.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by creshal »

jhasse wrote: post #131
Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not the person you asked, but here's my reasons. I'm on Linux and there no longer is a supported version of Flash by Adobe. (Apparently there is some NPAPI to Pepper bridge though, to get Chrome's Flash working in other browsers.) I already uninstalled before that, because I wanted to force HTML5 for sites that dynamically switch between Flash and HTML5 and because I wanted to nudge more sites to support HTML5 by…

> I'm on Linux and there no longer is a supported version of Flash by Adobe I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu with Flash (flashplugin-installer) and it's still receiving updates. It's an older version, but it has been working fine with every Flash site I've visited so far.

Not from my experience. There's quite a few sites that require a newer flash player, so it's either Google's PPAPI Flash or Windows.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by digitalengineer »

bambax wrote: post #109
Animats wrote: post #3

I've blocked Google ads for so long I didn't realize they had been allowing Flash ads.

I bought a new Windows laptop last year. Of course the first thing I did was open IE and search for "download chrome". Stupidly, I clicked on the first link, which was a Google ad for Chrome bundled with some malware. Spent the next few hours getting rid of said malware. I've used adblock (ublock) for a long time, but there was always a little bit of guilt associated with it; that episode cleared the guilt, completel…

Same thing with VLC I (as a Mac user) once installed for a Windows friend... The malware/adware version scored nr 1.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by oselhn »

Animats wrote: post #29
Spare_account wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which ad blocker do you use on mobile?

Ghostery on Firefox.

Ghostery like protection is already built in. There is no menu option for normal browsing mode but you can turn it on in about:config. Set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd »

jhasse wrote: post #131
Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not the person you asked, but here's my reasons. I'm on Linux and there no longer is a supported version of Flash by Adobe. (Apparently there is some NPAPI to Pepper bridge though, to get Chrome's Flash working in other browsers.) I already uninstalled before that, because I wanted to force HTML5 for sites that dynamically switch between Flash and HTML5 and because I wanted to nudge more sites to support HTML5 by…

> I'm on Linux and there no longer is a supported version of Flash by Adobe I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu with Flash (flashplugin-installer) and it's still receiving updates. It's an older version, but it has been working fine with every Flash site I've visited so far.

Yes, looks like I was misinformed there. While there are no more feature updates, security issues will continue to be released for about another year. (If I'm piecing the information here together correctly https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadm... https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/release-no...)

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by lsalvatore2 »

codazoda wrote: post #25

I've never installed Flash since it was an ad on (or maybe I just disable it, I can't remember). It's ONLY used for ads these days. I avoid the few video sites that use it.

Nope. The Superbowl was streamed with Flash Player on CBS own website. Hulu still streams with Flash Player. Zynga and King use Flash player in all their multi-million dollar earning Flash games. It's not going anywhere.

Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads

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Post by amdavidson »

lsalvatore2 wrote: post #139
codazoda wrote: post #25

I've never installed Flash since it was an ad on (or maybe I just disable it, I can't remember). It's ONLY used for ads these days. I avoid the few video sites that use it.

Nope. The Superbowl was streamed with Flash Player on CBS own website. Hulu still streams with Flash Player. Zynga and King use Flash player in all their multi-million dollar earning Flash games. It's not going anywhere.

> ... It's not going anywhere.

Yet.

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