Good! Now move to https!!!
Secure the damn web.
Flash-Free Video in 2016
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Re: Flash-Free Video in 2016
#12Sometimes I think Steve Jobs' greatest contribution may have been killing flash. Today is a glorious day.
But he did give us iTunes on Windows, so in my opinion, that about balances things out.
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#14So, basically Flash lives on because advertisers are still looking for a way to track us without our permission. Gee thanks.
All closed technology, on some level, exists to perpetuate coercion. This is the thesis of the free software movement.
> All closed technology, on some level, may be used to perpetuate coercion.
Maybe this way?
There are surely many examples of closed technology that isn't phoning home. The problem is that you don't get many garanties.
Re: Flash-Free Video in 2016
#15Fantastic news and congrats to the NY Times team. Does anyone know, who at this point still continues to use Flash?
The BBC still do which I find infuriating...
Re: Flash-Free Video in 2016
#16Fantastic news and congrats to the NY Times team. Does anyone know, who at this point still continues to use Flash?
The BBC still do which I find infuriating...
Indeed. Frustrates the HELL out of me even more because all their videos are available in web-friendly MP4 for the mobile services and you can get to them if you spoof the user agent. I wish they would just let me toggle a "beta" feature or something.
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#17Fantastic news and congrats to the NY Times team. Does anyone know, who at this point still continues to use Flash?
ESPN does and it's dreadful.
Re: Flash-Free Video in 2016
#18Fantastic news and congrats to the NY Times team. Does anyone know, who at this point still continues to use Flash?
Jerry Seinfeld on comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com
Re: Flash-Free Video in 2016
#19Fantastic news and congrats to the NY Times team. Does anyone know, who at this point still continues to use Flash?
Most of the German public broadcasters still use Flash (arte, ZDFMediathek, 3sat is one giant flash-blob etc.)
The most infuriating one is NDR, because they allow you to switch between Flash and HTML5 video. However, if you don't have Flash installed, it doesn't give you that option or falls back to HTML5 (which would be reasonable) but instead throws an error telling you to get Flash. Yup, you need to install Flash so you can disable Flash.