Thread: Adobe Flash Player 10: When will the update arrive? Is it coming at all?
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Hynkel is offline Hynkel
2010-05-11 , 21:37
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
You've not read this entire thread or any other about Flash around here.

Now I'm really hoping html5 will catch up and make flash useless.

f*** flash, adobe and adobes chief. i'm 100% on apples side, working against them.

There are others, but that's in this thread alone. Seriously... more people here ask about Flashblock and not using/liking Flash than I'd expect. My numbers before, hyperbole. But the fact that there are more than just a few folks that dislike Flash - something that's been around since the early days of Slashdot and the Linux users there - it's... growing.
Saying that people on Slashdot and Linux users dislike flash doesn't really counter my point. There are by far (even greater than the 10 to 1 ratio) a greater number of people using computers, and the internet, who know next to nothing about computers. They just want to be able to use the internet, and not have to worry about missing plugins. They won't know why it isn't working, only that it doesn't! // EDIT : Sorry, missed the part about it growing from there

I really dislike the current iterations of flash, especially on mobile devices, but I wouldn't have any problem with it on my phone if it worked well, and fast, then why would I care that it's flash?

Also, I use flash block on my laptop because I don't want flash applets loading when I go to the page, I want to have the choice to load them, not because I want to filter out all flash content. I also use adblock to filter out adverts, but that doesn't mean I don't like jpegs.
Last edited by Hynkel; 2010-05-11 at 21:40.