I have set Flash to click-to-play for at least a year now, maybe more. I'm using the "HTML5 Video Everywhere" extension [0], which covers some websites. Many o

I have set Flash to click-to-play for at least a year now, maybe more. I'm using the "HTML5 Video Everywhere" extension [0], which covers some websites. Many other websites have a link to the mp4 video or an RTMP stream in the flashvars. It takes at most a minute to find it. Whenever I come across a website that requires Flash, I usually decide to not watch it and eventually complain about them via twitter or something. There's also youtube-dl [1] which has the -g option to print a direct link to the video. The name is a bit misleading, it actually supports over 500 websites. And there is livestreamer [2] which gives you links for live streams with over 60 different services. BTW, an issue with click-to-play is that websites can detect it. For example, SoundCloud asks you to enable it when click-to-play is active, but often works fine when it's completely disabled. I asked their support 2 times about this, but I didn't really get anywhere. However, there are extensions that add a button to enable/disable Flash completely. 0: https://github.com/lejenome/html5-video-everywhere https://github.com/lejenome/html5-video-everywhere 1: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl 2: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer