Back in the day there was even a Mac browser plugin called "Click to Flash" that would prevent Flash from loading in web pages and draining battery like crazy.

Back in the day there was even a Mac browser plugin called "Click to Flash" that would prevent Flash from loading in web pages and draining battery like crazy. Made the web livable and more secure throwing Flash garbage ads everywhere. Ah, the dev page for these: https://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ https://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ People also don't remember the huge number of CVEs that Flash had: https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/53/6761/1/Adobe-Flash-Player.html https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/53/6761/1/Adobe-Flas...