It is extremely annoying to not have flash on my mobile browser, extremely. It basically blocks you from seeing a huge amount of videos and content.
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Originally posted by ChrisXY View PostI'd estimate 99% of my flash usage is watching videos.
The sad thing is, that adobe themselves did say that the flash plugin is not for solving the problem of playing videos.
They still don't seem to realize that (my estimation 95% of users only ever want to watch flash videos with it. They should have made a "flashplugin light" that was only capable of video playback and solving that problem efficiently.
That would have the advantage of making the flash advertisement garbage go away. Without ads this phoronix article makes chromium consume about 0% CPU on my 3632qm, with flash ads, chromium consumes accumulated about 10 to 20% CPU (of one core). I wonder how much energy humanity could have saved not having flash ads. I mean, not even not clogging the bandwidth with ads, just the client pcs not displaying them.
Not only do the ads waste energy and bandwidth compared to text ads, they also most often destroy or compromise the layout and are just plain ugly.
I mean, what the fuck.
So I would like a flash player that only is capable of playing flash content.
Maybe the approach of Shumway is modular enough so that you can restrict the code loading to that code that plays videos.
Sometimes I even run GNU JavaScript blocker, because most websites are just annoying with all the poppy flashy stuff.
So, what is all the fuss about flash? It is utterly useless and websites, that use it, have mostly rather no content at all. Youtube still runs the html5 beta for their videos and I would say ~70% are presented in a non-flash player to me.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostI hope you guys know that pr0n is responsible for killing several formats, right? If something's not compatible with porn, it's not going to succeed, even if it's 10 times better than a porn-compatible format. Good examples are Beta vs VHS and HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray.
@elanthis
Good to know. Thanks.
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Originally posted by disi View PostI wonder... phoronix is on my whitelist for adblock, so the ads are downloaded and I can see the links in form of an arrow because flashblock won't run them.
Youtube still runs the html5 beta for their videos and I would say ~70% are presented in a non-flash player to me.
And their HTML5 beta got broken after the last UI change. Not sure if they fixed it yet.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostDon't they give money for clicks on the advertisements only?
And their HTML5 beta got broken after the last UI change. Not sure if they fixed it yet.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostIs it porno-compatible?
My only use for Flash is porno.
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Originally posted by Kivada View PostTheres a little know site called https://thepiratebay.se/ where you can find all the porn on earth for free and you don't need Flash installed to access it.
Also, torrents often only work good for recently released stuff.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostI know, but then you have to download it and can't stream it.
Also, torrents often only work good for recently released stuff.
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