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by Marazan 1417 days ago
The killer line is of course the last.

Killing Flash did not kill punch the monkey ads and it didn't suddenly make web pages note efficient.

It just changed the delivery mechanism.

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Mmmmm yes we have 5MB of web assembly garbage instead of 50k of flash. All when 5k of HTML and CSS would do …

Very little genuine value added in the process.

> Very little genuine value added in the process.

And 25 years worth of content lost because Adobe couldn't open source flash.

The Flash Spec was open.

There are loads of Flash Player implementations.