There's some irony with Google blaming Flash for being spammy You're being a little kind; this is not so much irony as outright hypocrisy. Apple did something

There's some irony with Google blaming Flash for being spammy You're being a little kind; this is not so much irony as outright hypocrisy. Apple did something similar with iOS, refusing to support the plugins arguing that they were insecure and so on, and then promptly using one of their own for HTML5 media elements that broke all kinds of functionality, as well as ignoring the related Web standards whenever it suited them, and then locking up their ecosystem so no-one else could offer an alternative browser that handled these issues better. The problem with modern browser developers is that they seem to have decided their job isn't just to present the content of the Web but to try to influence and curate it on behalf of their user bases. Google gets extra demerits because it is also trying to do the same through its control of the dominant search engine. I don't think this amount of concentrated power is even remotely a healthy trend for the future of the Web.