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Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1

Posted by Soulskill on from the making-the-internet-less-obnoxious dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Shaun Nichols from the Register reports that unimportant Flash content will be click-to-play by default in Google Chrome from September 1. He writes, "Google is making good on its promise to strangle Adobe Flash's ability to auto-play in Chrome. The web giant has set September 1, 2015 as the date from which non-important Flash files will be click-to-play in the browser by default – effectively freezing out 'many' Flash ads in the process. Netizens can right-click over the security-challenged plugin and select 'Run this' if they want to unfreeze an ad. Otherwise, the Flash files will remain suspended in a grey box, unable to cause any harm nor any annoyance."

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  1. Re:Do we really want Google... by SeriousTube · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's silly. It's click to play, not a total block.