Not a huge fan of Google, but this IS good news.

from JoeUser Forums

 

Now to convince the devs…Flash is bloated, and very insecure…and if you’re on a mobile device, eats your battery in a decidedly non-kosher manner.

So, from tomorrow, Chrome will automatically pause web ads using Adobe Flash. Ads using HTML5 will autoplay. Amazon is no longer accepting Flash based ads.

Last month, Mozilla blocked Flash in default settings.

Well…time has come to move on from Flash.

Vive la différence!

Source:

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/google-flash-ads/?mbid=social_twitter

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top


So, from tomorrow, Chrome will automatically pause web ads using Adobe Flash. Ads using HTML5 will autoplay. Amazon is no longer accepting Flash based ads.
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It's kind of disappointing they were still autoplaying the flash ads while they had already stopped autoplaying flash content. Seems they should have both been taken off autoplay at the same time.

Or was that just my settings, and did "I" set flash to not autoplay on Chrome? Not really sure as it's not my main browser. I do use Chrome expressly for any Flash I still do need/want to see. Besides that, Flash has been banished for a while from all my PCs.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

What WILL the folks at FlashBlock do?

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Daiwa, reply 2

What WILL the folks at FlashBlock do?
End of Daiwa's quote

Find something else to block, I guess.

Now if they came up with a proggie to block all that is Google, why I'd even pay for that. :grin:

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That is great news as my battery life is terrible.  Hopefully, blocking Flash will help a bit