Hating flash is like hating paper because most of what is written on paper is advertising and lies. Oceans of wonderful content were made with or had their origins in flash. If you care about the good stuff, you might look up Bluemaxima's Flashpoint.
People hate flash not because of the content but because it causes a lot of problems. At one point, Flash was responsible for over 80% of all browser crashes.
Flash was used often in advertisements. Pretty much any animation / video banner ad was flash. While it would certainly crash browsers, it was WONDERFULLY easy to block. Just disable flash for all sites except your favorites, and these stupid distracting, bandwidth-sucking ads would not even be downloaded or processed. That was so much better than current HTML5 video ads which, thanks to browsers and their (lack of) blocking features, are pretty difficult to block. You have to rely on extensions which rarely work and need frequent manual updating.
The first Flash ad I ever saw was on Slashdot, and it was for Splunk software. Before Flash click-to-play extensions were common, I would add to my hosts file any domain name involved in serving a Flash ad.
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Hating flash is like hating paper because most of what is written on paper is advertising and lies. Oceans of wonderful content were made with or had their origins in flash. If you care about the good stuff, you might look up Bluemaxima's Flashpoint.
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Flash was used often in advertisements. Pretty much any animation / video banner ad was flash. While it would certainly crash browsers, it was WONDERFULLY easy to block. Just disable flash for all sites except your favorites, and these stupid distracting, bandwidth-sucking ads would not even be downloaded or processed. That was so much better than current HTML5 video ads which, thanks to browsers and their (lack of) blocking features, are pretty difficult to block. You have to rely on extensions which rarely work and need frequent manual updating.
So in that respect, I miss Flash.
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Extensions work really well, and don't require manual updating.
I simply do not see ads. Perhaps you're using shit extensions, instead of uBlock Origin?
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I used hosts to block Flash ads on /. (Score:2)
The first Flash ad I ever saw was on Slashdot, and it was for Splunk software. Before Flash click-to-play extensions were common, I would add to my hosts file any domain name involved in serving a Flash ad.