Chrome 55 Now Blocks Flash, Uses HTML5 by Default
Found on Bleeping Computer on Sunday, 04 December 2016
While some of the initial implementation details of the "HTML5 By Default" plan changed since May, Flash has been phased out in favor of HTML5 as the primary technology for playing multimedia content in Chrome.
Flash, who's been accused of being a resource hog and a security threat, will continue to ship with Chrome for the time being.
If you do it, don't do it half-heartedly: you don't block Flash while still shipping it. Just don't install it at all; the Internet works without it. Those websites which rely on Flash for core parts need to phase it out quickly. Having said all that, having Chrome doing this is an annoying decision: until now there was no real pressure to move to HTML5, so not having Flash installed means no annoying advertising that sneaks by adblockers. Now that advertisers will shift to HTML5, this simple and easy protection is gone.