Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 28, 2015 @12:57AM 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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Re:I've had this as a plug-in. by sycodon · 2015-08-28 01:14 · Score: 0, Troll

Yep. No one should be dancing for joy.
This wasn't done out of the goodness of Google's heart. They are merely taking down the competition.

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