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The company plans to stop running Flash display ads on January 2, 2017. In January 2015, YouTube ditched Flash for HTML5 video by default, and, in February 2015, the company began automatically converting Flash ads to HTML5. Google has played a big part in helping to kill Flash. That said, Google does state that “the tone and spirit should remain fairly consistent.” One way or another, Chrome will push HTML5 by default, in place of Flash. Keep in mind that these are just mockups, and the details are still up in the air. Users will be able to manage their individual site preferences. There will be a setting to “Allow Sites to ask to run Flash” (ask the first time only), “Allow Sites…” (right-click to play), and “Never run Flash content” (disable the plugin entirely). Google also plans to add policy controls for enterprises.

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For sites that direct users to download Flash, Chrome will intercept the request and instead present the “Allow Flash Player …” infobar, directing users back to the prompt. If the user allows Flash Player to run, Chrome will store that preference and refresh the page with Flash enabled. Here is the prompt that users will see when first visiting a site that requires Flash but isn’t on the whitelist:

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Google promises to update the whitelist periodically throughout the year to remove sites that no longer warrant an exception based on usage. If this whitelist were to be implemented today, Chrome’s internal metrics show that the top 10 domains using Flash would be, ,, VK.com,, , OK.ru,, , and. The whitelist is meant to “reduce the initial user impact, and avoid over-prompting,” according to the company’s “intent to implement” post on Google Groups.

This whitelist will expire after one year.

To avoid over-prompting users, we will initially ship with a whitelist of the then top 10 sites (based on aggregate usage).

Chrome will honor the user’s setting for that domain on subsequent visits.

If the user accepts, Chrome will advertise the presence of Flash Player, and refresh the page.

When a user encounters a site that needs Flash Player, a prompt will appear at the top of the page, giving the user the option of allowing it for a site.

If a site offers an HTML5 experience, this change will make that the default experience.

MetaBeat will bring together thought leaders to give guidance on how metaverse technology will transform the way all industries communicate and do business on October 4 in San Francisco, CA.įlash Player will come bundled with Chrome, however, its presence will not be advertised by default, namely in Navigator.Plugins() and Navigator.MimeTypes().

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