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Flash is one of those things that I will be almost sorry to see go. Not because I enjoyed it, but because I could safely ignore it most of the time: I can disa
by AdmiralAsshat 11y ago
Flash is one of those things that I will be almost sorry to see go. Not because I enjoyed it, but because I could safely ignore it most of the time: I can disable it, meaning that method of attack/annoyance is completely shut off. When I see my browser showing me something that failed to run because Flash was not turned on, I'm fairly confident that it was something I didn't need to see. Sort of like how our spam filters have been trained well enough that nobody in this day and age still gets e-mails with shady .exe attachments--they're predictable, and Gmail and Outlook's spam filters will catch them.
On the other hand, once Flash is dead, I worry that the invasive crap that made Flash so obnoxious will simply be re-engineered in HTML5 and Javascript, resulting in the same problems of garish pop-ups and autoplaying videos in an implementation that is more difficult to block.
- vezycash 11y agoMy main issue with the kill-flash cult is auto playing html5 videos. I've asked multiple times on HN and have not gotten a working answer. How can I block HTML5 videos and audios or at least stop them from playing automatically?
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- chejazi 11y agoParticularly for mobile, the latest video-ad rendering is happening in JS [0]. This is because autoplay video is disabled by default on mobile, but video rendering in ASM JS / WebGL bypasses such restrictions. Yahoo [1] is doing this, for instance. [0] https://github.com/brion/ogv.js https://github.com/brion/ogv.js [1] https://hpto.yahoo.com/review/mobile/npte/a-haunted.html https://hpto.yahoo.com/review/mobile/npte/a-haunted.html
- mike-cardwell 11y agoYou don't need JavaScript to autoplay video or audio on a webpage: <video src="url" autoplay> <audio src="url" autoplay>
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- JoshTriplett 11y agoThe syntax in the comment you replied to works fine: just include a video tag that references the video file by URL.
- 1ris 11y agoNoscript for firefox has a click-to-play feature for Html5 audio and video.
- toddmorey 11y agoThe fact that it's hard to turn off autoplay in most browsers without a plugin is really sad. We really had a chance to get it right.
- mkddrm 11y agoStarting in September with Firefox 41 you can set media.autoplay.enabled to False in about:config and stop them from playing automatically. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285
- JoshTriplett 11y agoFor YouTube, there are several click-to-play extensions that work with the HTML5 player. There's a Firefox preference media.autoplay.enabled that works for most HTML5 video other than YouTube; ideally that could be allowed on a per-site basis. For ads, use an ad blocker; they know how to block HTML5 ads just fine.
- ChrisNorstrom 11y agoYou are so correct it's painful. Everything I hated about flash and myspace has been re-engineered as native browser code. Just look at today's HTML5 transitions and animations. It's not enough to have a normal webpage. Now when you scroll down things have to fade in and out of visibility, images have to rotate and come into view, videos start to autoplay when they come into visibility, parallax diarrhea slows down your computer. I can't wait till "parallax scroll blocker" and "visual diarrhea disabler" are released as chrome plugins.
- jakeogh 11y agoDisable JS. I have it off by default and the web is much better. If I cant see a page, I decide either to hit the JS enable keybinding (for this page only if you use suckless's surf), or to just close the tab.