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I am so happy that I can barely contain myself. Hopefully this means Flash will now be used for important things, instead of shoving ads in my face that I can't

I am so happy that I can barely contain myself. Hopefully this means Flash will now be used for important things, instead of shoving ads in my face that I can't dismiss, and follow my scroll bar.

krakensden 15y ago
You say that now, but just wait until they're written in JS+Canvas and enormously more difficult to block.
- sjs 15y ago
  I don't have any trouble blacklisting domains for JS with current browser extensions. Why would it suddenly get more difficult?
- atdt 15y ago
  Well, it's true that JavaScript- and Canvas- powered ads are harder to distinguish from legitimate web content. But the flip-side is that they're (re-)programmable using standard JavaScript APIs, and thus vulnerable to manipulation by browser extensions in a way that Flash never was, being a proprietary binary format.
- deleted 15y ago
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- w1ntermute 15y ago
  Yeah, HTML5 YouTube has the significant disadvantage of autoplay.
  - Zirro 15y ago
    There's nothing preventing you from blocking HTML5-video just like Flash can be blocked with add-ons today. Personally I use NoScript for that.
- notatoad 15y ago
  They'll still be iframes or external scripts. Ads will always be trivial to block.
- ronaldj 15y ago
  Or CSS3?
eps 15y ago
Seriously? You are that annoyed with Flash and still don't know about FlashBlock? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock
astrodust 15y ago
I can't even imagine how many hours I've lost to Flash-induced beachball. Some pages have dozens of little advertisements and assorted trash that take nearly a minute to sort out. Any effort to make the browser experience smoother is a good thing!