Google Chrome plans to start blocking Flash on all but a handful of top sites

It's no secret that Flash is slowly going the way of the dodo, but Google's Chrome will likely accelerate that processes by blocking Flash content on most Internet sites. 

Chrome's development team revealed last week a plan to automatically switch Flash content with a HTML5 alternative, if possible. If a site doesn't provide an HTML5 version, the content will be available to users only after they approve it.

According to the plan, which is still in proposal stage, with implementation planned in the fourth quarter of 2016, Flash Player would still come bundled with Chrome, but its presence would not be advertised. When a web site attempts to start Flash Player, users would be prompted to run it just once, always or never for that particular site (see Google's example below).  Read more...