YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @10:52AM from the now-if-they-can-ditch-the-commenters dept.

An anonymous reader writes: YouTube today announced it has finally stopped using Adobe Flash by default. The site now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE11, Apple's Safari 8, and in beta versions of Mozilla's Firefox browser. At the same time, YouTube is now also defaulting to its HTML5 player on the web. In fact, the company is deprecating the "old style" Flash object embeds and its Flash API, pointing users to the iFrame API instead, since the latter can adapt depending on the device and browser you're using.

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flash updates by crgrace · 2015-01-27 11:00 · Score: 5, Funny

But, but, who is going to remind me every 36 hours that a new version of flash I need to download (along with crapware) is available?
1. Re:flash updates by Mr+D+from+63 · 2015-01-27 11:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Java will work hard to make sure you stay annoyed.
Re:So they've finally fixed Pause & Resume? by jez9999 · 2015-01-27 13:05 · Score: 1, Funny

Using Chrome latest here.
Why??

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