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Google Devs Planning Flash's Demise With New 'HTML5 By Default' Chrome Setting (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the phased-out dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: In a Google Groups thread named "Intent to implement: HTML5 by Default," the Google developers announced initial plans to implement a new feature in the Chromium core that will disable the playback of Flash content by default, and use HTML5 instead, if available. The feature is scheduled to ship with Chromium builds in Q4 2016, according to the current timeline. To avoid "overprompting," a whitelist will allow ten major websites to continue to show Flash content by default without pestering users with "Allow domain.com to run Flash Player" prompts. The whitelist will be in effect one year only. The list includes the domains of YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, VK, Live, Yandex, OK.ru, Twitch, Amazon, and Mail.ru, the biggest sites running Flash content today. Previews of the settings and prompts UI are also available.

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  1. Let's extend that idea by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about they implement blocking autorun of all videos by default unless you whitelist a site. There are really only a couple of video sites in the world that I ever want to have a video run without my intervention.

    No, I don't want your video ad (especially with sound). No, I don't want the trailer of your movie or game appearing as the banner on top of every page on your site. No, I don't want an autoplaying video to accompany the perfectly good text version of your news article that just says exactly the same thing.

    1. Re:Let's extend that idea by Sigma+7 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I should not have to download an extension for something that should be a core feature of the browser.

      Disabling Javascript was a core feature of Netscape 4.0, and had the added benefit of plugging practically any drive-by-exploit from an ad network.

    2. Re:Let's extend that idea by ortholattice · · Score: 4, Insightful

      How about they implement blocking autorun of all videos by default

      You mean like YouTube, where when you middle-click open several tabs of videos of possible interest, they all start playing in a cacophonous roar? Then you have to open each tab to pause it before you can even start watching one of them, defeating the whole purpose of "open in new tab".

      Oh wait, Google bought YouTube and added that incredibly annoying autorun "feature".

      I don't know what they were thinking, but I do know that it has caused me to do a lot less casual sampling of their videos..

  2. hardly killing it by luther349 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is it will just use html 5 if it can hardly killing flash. devs love flash becouse they can fill it with ads something they cant do with html 5.

  3. biggest flash users are porn sites by sittingnut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "... domains of YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, VK, Live, Yandex, OK.ru, Twitch, Amazon, and Mail.ru, the biggest sites running Flash content today"
    really?
    some of them, yes. but biggest sites using flash are big porn sites.

  4. How do I block HTML5 video by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hate audio and video auto playing and auto looping. At least with flash there are a number of add-ons that work and block the damned thing. HTML5 video is not as easily blocked. As the advetisers and clickbaiters figure out more creative ways to be annoying, I'm wondering what the state of the art is in blocking unwanted audio, video, autoplay, autoloop etc?

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