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Because Youtube, unlike the vast majority of websites, have a dedicated security team to monitor and prevent malicious content being delivered to their users, a
by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
Because Youtube, unlike the vast majority of websites, have a dedicated security team to monitor and prevent malicious content being delivered to their users, active support for flash alternatives, and flash deprecation is already achieved (since early to mid 2015, I forgot the actual date) as Youtube will only use Flash if a more modern alternative isn't supported by the browser.
In other words, you are arguing that new versions of Chrome should continue to support a legacy technology rather than expecting site owners to update their technologies.
Why do you expect Google to accept the externalization of your costs in maintaining current standards? Why should Google continue to subsidize your website by managing error and crash report services, and spending engineering cycles supporting Flash bugs, or Chrome issues induced by Flash when you can't be bothered to migrate from old tech?
- CJefferson 10y agoI just feel your argument falls apart when Google have decided that everyone has to stop using flash except them. Certainly they are minimising Flash, but why don't they get rid of it 100%, before imposing it on the rest of us? I don't expect Google to treat me specially, but I don't like Chrome having a special "If website is one of 10 special sites, get to use super-useful bonus browser feature without prompting". But I feel we are going around in circles.
- ygjb-dupe 10y agoYou don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it, or accept that your users will have an inferior user experience, ultimately degrading to no user experience when flash is finally switched off. It sounds harsh, but it's a reality. The history of IT is littered with the corpses (and zombies) of dead tech, and Flash is fast on it's way there.