LXer: The Campaign Against Adobe Flash and the Counterattack
 

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Last week a group of people came together to launch a website 'Occupy Flash' and started a campaign against Adobe Flash plugin.Identities of these people are not known and they have no corporate backing but they have said the Goal of this campaign is to see Flash plugin dead on desktop browsers and they want everyone to uninstall it. There is another group of Flash developers that is not happy with this campaign and as a counterattack launched Occupy HTML campaign. As far as Linux is concerned, Flash support is not as good as other platforms but it has certainly improved greatly over the years and 64bit support was added recently as well. Still there are lots of problems like frequent crashes and CPU hogging. Ironically, the Occupy Flash campaign does not even list Linux as a platform for Flash and provide uninstallation instructions for Windows and Mac only.

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Wow ... this has been a long time coming. Flash has been abused for so long on the web I can't understand how it hasn't been replaced already.

I like Flash as a technology. I like some of the nifty things that have been done with it, like games and such. What I don't like is websites which require Flash plugin for full functionality (imdb and such).

I don't see Flash dying completely, even if it falls out of use as a web design tool. It is used for web games and professional animation for example (any MLP:FiM fans here?)

The site's kinda "dead" (the creators haven't updated it for quite a while), and I don't know that I'd call it "professional", but see Homestar Runner. It's a perfect example (IMO) of where Flash can actually be fun. :p

Their identities are not known because they are CIA or NSA or other SS.