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This is awesome. Flash isn't used for anything anymore, can't wait until this is the default.

Besides ads. And Google is first and foremost an advertising company. Don't hold your breath for that to become the default in Chrome.

And that's pretty much why Google built Google Web Designer[0] - because advertisers are going to want their media to run on all browsers, even ones without Flash.

[0] http://www.google.co.uk/webdesigner/

Google Flash ads are rare, and I'm sure they'd be happy to move away from them entirely in favor of HTML5 technologies.

And this is why we must treasure and keep Flash -- so we can easily block the kinds of people who use it.

Filtering out HTML5 video ads is harder (though if you block everything set to auto play you do OK).

#(though if you block everything set to auto play you do OK)

How do i do this on chrome?

I do all my rewriting with a proxy (in my case glimmer blocker, though I also had to implement my own man-in-the-middle SSL tool to make it work with https connections). I simply rewrite URLs, strip referrer tags, respond with empty files for domains I don't like, and rewrite pages to remove crud. It speeds up my browsing experience immensely and coincidentally improves my privacy somewhat.

I seems brain damaged to me to do it via a browser extension since I use multiple browsers, not to mention other programs that make http/https/ftp connections (e.g. RSS reader, mail reader etc).

It's still the only way to get write access to the clipboard, unfortunately.

In what browser is Flash still required? I've been doing:

    to_clipboard = (text) ->
        textarea = document.getElementById "copy-workaround"
        textarea.value = text
        textarea.select()
        document.execCommand "copy", false, null

In chrome for years.

That code doesn't work (at least in ordinary page scripts), as far as I can tell.

http://jsfiddle.net/vej6vbdt/

You're entirely right, after looking into it a bit, it seems it's blocked now in everything but content pages (which is where I use it)

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