Google to kill Flash ads this year

[Kevin Lancaster]

Google to kill Flash ads this year

Google plans to go 100% HTML5 and kill all ads built in Flash in the process.

 

[konfab]

Good.

 

[icyrus]

Six years too late, but late is better than never I guess.

 

[backstreetboy]

Six years too late, but late is better than never I guess.

Apple fanboy?

 

[Sl8er]

Apple fanboy?

 

[ponder]

Apple fanboy?

Not an apple fanboy but I can't stand flash.

 

[sajunky]

Not using flash at all. Easy to disable this bugger.

 

[kianm]

Adblockers seem to do a fantastic job at blocking those as well

 

[Polymathic]

google still uses flash for it's music streaming service though

 

[FiestaST]

Flash is donkey balls.

 

[roligov]

Flash/Java need to both be decommissioned.

 

[greg0205]

Every time I hit a website where one of those "you need the latest version of Flash" messages pops up, I have to check my calendar to make sure we have, in fact, made it to 2016.

 

[Dolby]

No 'Steve Jobs predicted this!' comments ?

 

[backstreetboy]

No 'Steve Jobs predicted this!' comments ?

http://molempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Steve_Jobs_Death_Worst_Jokes13.jpg

 

[backstreetboy]

google still uses flash for it's music streaming service though

Not on Chrome if you enable it under labs...

http://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/blog/en/2012/08/Google-Play-Music-HTML5-enabled.jpg

 

[konfab]

Flash/Java need to both be decommissioned.

Nope.