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When I went to watch my first video, I got this:

html5: Unsupported video format. Try installing Adobe Flash.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Flash is dead. How long until you support html5?

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We're currently working on it now. We use HLS for adaptive bitrate streaming which has practically no native browser support. Just recently some libraries started popping up which are able to utilize the new media source extensions to play HLS using HTML5, and we are currently testing it and trying to get it out as soon as possible. We absolutely hate flash.

Do you have any mailing list so that we could get a notification when html5 is available? I am very interested in the service, but Flash is a big no-no for me and will forget it in a week if I do not subscribe.

You can subscribe to our blog's mailing list, we're going to start cross posting our tech posts and announcements through there as well. https://blog.curiositystream.com/

How I fell out of the funnel:

Preview > Click Video > Flash Warning > Close Browser Tab

Maybe one day I'll be back.

Sorry to hear that, like we said, we're working as quickly as possible to get an HTML5 compatible player up.

I signed up for the free month and discovered the Flash problem after. I don't use Flash but my girlfriend does. Since she's the one I'm subscribing for, it won't affect our customership.

I fell out of the funnel when the the preview wouldn't load, apparently because ScriptSafe blocked

optimizely.com, maxmind.com, stripe.com, and googleadservices.com.

If a service won't work without serving me up a basket of trackers and advertising scripts then I'm out.

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