I agreed with you until... Recently, I've noticed videos in Facebook now refusing to play, saying "sorry, you must upgrade to a newer flash version", with a link to Adobe to get the upgrade.

The link doesn't lead to anything useful for the N900 of course... Unless maybe the Debian version of flash works with Easy Debian?

It's disappointing that videos on BBC iPlayer don't seem to play, even when downloaded separately with get-iplayer. But that's never really worked.

As a device marketed partly for it's video capabilities, the N900 is remarkably poor at it, and getting worse as the web moves on.