“Google today announced that the Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing are completely ditching Flash for HTML5 next year,” Emil Protalinski reports for VentureBeat. “More specifically, advertisers will no longer be able to upload display ads built in Flash into AdWords and DoubleClick Digital Marketing, starting on June 30, 2016, and won’t be able to run display ads in the Flash format on the Google Display Network or through DoubleClick, starting on January 2, 2017.”
“Flash has been on its way out for years,” Protalinski reports. “Not only is the tool a security nightmare, with new vulnerabilities popping up regularly, the market has been slowly but surely moving away from plugins in favor of HTML5.”
“Today’s announcement is thus just the latest nail in the coffin,” Protalinski reports. “The death of Flash can’t come soon enough, both for performance and security reasons.”
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Google: Late to the game.
Should have been dumped 1 year ago.
The New York Times killed Flash Video as of January 1.
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/flash-free-video-in-2016/
When will MDN stop running flash ads?
January 2, 2017.
MDN uses Google to run advertising and user tracking scripts, in direct contrast to all their editorial opinions on the matter.
I’ve noticed lately that Facebook videos have a tough time decoding to HTML5 and I have to run some of them in flash. Until Flash is 100% deleted there will always be issues with HTML5. You would think that with the number of IOS and Android devices out there that webpage designers would drop Flash. Even I have dropped my Flash slideshows on the pages that I run since most people access my pages with mobile deices. I hear that Adobe is going to stop supporting Flash in the near future. I hope so.
Any problems with HTML5 video should be quickly cleared up once Flash is no longer used as a crutch.
If we can achieve the following, I’ll stop blocking ads:
— No ads that move
— No ads that make noise
— No ads for transparently obvious scams.
Pipe dream, I know.
——RM
— No ads that expand and cover the story.
– No ads that track user clicks, movement, or other information of any kind.
Google can have some fscked priorities. They annoy other companies with their security flaw findings, but are willing to defer The Right Thing To Do if it involves fscking advertising.
Q: What is the single most important thing any Internet user can do to block malware and hacking from affecting their computer?
A: Block FLASH!
Come on Google. Grow some ethics.
And yes, troll kiddies. Apple Safari already blocks ALL Flash, by default, on ALL web pages. Users have to go through a very clear process of approving Flash on every website before Safari will show it. I like that! 😀
I have never, nor will I EVER use online ads to buy something. This is on purpose… I haven’t used flash for a long time…
great article