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What percentage of all those flash capable desktops are running FlashBlock (or equivalent)?

A year and a half ago Lifehacker was up to 6% not installed and DaringFireball claimed 32% of its users didn't have Flash.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/01/30/flash-lifehacker

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It seems unlikely those sites have a very representative audience. The numbers you cite are perhaps large slices of tiny slivers of the overall group of web users.

Indeed. In fact, Gruber has, on several occasions, encouraged readers to go Flash-free, which I'm sure has an impact on the number of his visitors that don't have Flash installed.

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