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Before everyone starts complaining about Flash, I challenge people to go 30 days without Flash.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html

http://www.cultofmac.com/67699/uninstall-flash-for-mac-os-x-...

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Been doing it for months.

Dip into Chrome for a couple games and to skip QuickTime bugs affecting YouTube/Vimeo (QT loads the whole stream, then drops and begins re-downloading if I pause and resume).

Now that the rdio client is Flash-free it’s pretty easy for me to live without Flash.

When I upgraded to lion I decided to not bother installing flash on firefox

The only time I switch is to watch youtube / vimeo or a news video, very occasionally youtube gives me a html5 video which is nice, I dont understand why the rest dont already support html5

I've been using Chrome's FlashBlock extension and loving it:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiab...

For those who want to take melling up on this challenge (and I would encourage it because it's an eye-opening experience to see much your favorite websites depend on Flash, or not), this extension is a nice bridge.

Flash embeds aren't loaded automatically. Instead, a placeholder appears instead. Clicking on that placeholder loads the Flash file, so you can selectively choose which Flash embeds to see.

Indeed, people should be aware of both how widely it is used, so they can be outraged and call for a change. Namely - the death of flash.

Chrome has an inbuilt plugin blocker, that does the same as flash blocker. You may need to activate it in about:flags to see the option in the plugin settings. An advantage is that it doesn't depend on javascript, so it is friendly with the javascript blocker in chrome, if you are feeling very paranoid.

Millions of people go without Flash every day.

On their iPads, smartphones, etc.

going on 8 months without flash on any of my home machines. i prefer it, i find that the content from flash websites tends to be poor quality or unneccesary distractions, my internet is better without it.

I have been flash free for so long I can not even recall when I last used flash...

So what? I've been Native App-free for months now. I encourage everyone to go without using native apps for a few weeks. Unchain yourselves from Apple's closed, flash-hating club.

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