"One important use of flash video is in ads. Many users feel these ads are too intrusive, but the industry demands them and they have near universal adoption. P

"One important use of flash video is in ads. Many users feel these ads are too intrusive, but the industry demands them and they have near universal adoption. Penny-arcade had a strict policy against such ads, but when 99% of ads requests became flash based even they changed their tune." This is one of the major reasons I don't have flash installed in my browser. As a consequence of this and using privoxy to block regular html ads, my web browsing is virtually ad-free.