--Chrome Will Block Flash Advertisements
(August 28, 2015)
As of September 1, 2015, Google's Chrome browser will freeze
"non-essential" Flash advertisements by default. The ads will play only
if users click on the "Run This Plugin" button that will appear with the
ad. "Essential" Flash content, including embedded video players, will
be permitted to run automatically.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/28/google_says_flash_ads_out_september/[Editor's Note (Pescatore): Adobe had a decade to try to make Flash
secure, didn't. In any event, hard to think of any animated
advertisement I would miss if it went away.
(Murray): Opt-in is the right default. That said, our tolerance for
Flash is a measure of our tolerance for risk. By that measure we are
not very serious. Flash is "historically broken," not getting better,
a weak point in the browser, the desktop, ubiquitous, persistent, and
ultimately a risk to the infrastructure.]