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> SoundCloud, for example, would just silently fail, and I would have to manually disable the feature to get it to play

SoundCloud have actually since added a detector, and will warn you saying "It looks like you have a Flash blocker browser setting or extension. Please enable Flash to hear sound." Also, whereas before the Flash element was invisible, now there's a target to click on if you do have Flash content blocked. Very well done actually.

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> Also, whereas before the Flash element was invisible, now there's a target to click on if you do have Flash content blocked.

I saw that warning earlier today when I made my comment (note that the screenshot of the enabler pop-up shows SoundCloud as the URL), and thought maybe I had just missed it before.

Alas, I just tried an actual sound page, and the result was as before. I didn't see any "click to play" items, and clicking around the page (on obvious targets like the Play button, and less obvious targets like the progress bar and times) revealed nothing either. Where do you see the new target?

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