Apple might have forced Adobe to kill Flash mobile, but Occupy Flash wants to unite the world in eradicating Flash from the desktop as well. The goal is simple: get everyone to uninstall Flash Player and you can join the fight now.
OK, it might be a bit over-the-top to take the anti-capitalist Occupy-type protests against a piece of software, no matter how crappy it is — but I’m with them. I loathe Flash for its inefficiencies, ability to bring computers to their knees and horrendous introduction animations that you just can’t skip. Adobe might not be to blame for all the issues with Flash; but a world with Flash retired would be a better world for all. [Occupy Flash via The Verge]
Clint
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 7:43 AMHonestly this ‘movement’ serves no purpose other than being a bandwagon and soapbox for the haters. Uninstalling flash guarantees you a broken web experience given that all the major browsers fail to implement HTML standards correctly. Comparing ‘occupy flash’ to ‘occupy wallstreet’ is just petty and self serving, its a web plugin – not the financial elite reaping tax concessions, bailouts and golden handshakes.
Alex K
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 9:46 AM+1
Wok
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 1:18 PM+1
Sam Timmins
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 7:51 AMHow does one Occupy something they’re distanced from?
Cameron
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 8:18 AMAsk your mum.
Sam Timmins
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 8:54 PMAh, the lowly retort of the troll with no brain.
Cameron
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 8:17 AMhttp://www.occupyhtml.com there’s a cause I can get behind!
Rossco
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:12 AM+1. Use the best tool for the job, fanboys and haters just have to realise that sometimes that is Flash.
Sicarius123
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 8:28 AMOn the plus side uninstalling flash gets rid of most badly written resource intensive ads on the internet. Such as the ones on Gizmodo.
On the downside without either flash or quicktime you can’t stream video from most websites. At least youtube is html5 now.
Rossco
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:07 AMEasy solution mate, get Flash Block (as far as I know there is a plugin for every major browser) and you can open flash panels on website on demand and enable flash for select websites only.
Sicarius123
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:18 AMI use adblock anyway which kills the ads, I’d be more than happy to leave the ads displaying though if it wasn’t for how badly they’re coded.
Greg
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 8:34 AMI am of the opposite opinion. Everyone should stick it to Apple and show their support for flash. Apple by definition will lose due to their paltry market share.
Jaezass
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 9:26 AMThis occupy thing is getting out of hand, now you’re suggesting using it as a method to kill flash? From what I’ve seen recently Adobe are working hard to fix it and when they do all will be fine! The Occupy movement has been subverted by rent a crowd, the original movement had a point but this recent nonsense is mostly lazy hippies with nothing better to do for the most part.
chris
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 9:46 AM+1
flash will eventually get taken over by html5, but just let things run thier course, dont let a company like ‘Apple’ help things along.. there will be room for both (flash and html5) for a while to come. But at this present time flash has still got a place in my web browsing world.
olearymo
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 9:58 AM+1
Bandwagons. People just love bandwagons. And yeah, it ruins it for the genuine people who were trying to make something happen in the first place. Cheapens it.
Chris
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 9:33 AMThis website is run by an Apple fanboy. what do you expect when it comes to stories like this.
DarkAura
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 9:35 AMThe first sentence is wrong
“Apple might have forced Adobe to kill Flash mobile”
It didn’t, HTML5 is killing it (which Google was one of the biggest pushes of this) Apple just jumped out early… Way too early because I and most android users are still happily using flash and HTML 5 isn’t there yet.
Flash serves a great purpose and until there is another service to replace it fully it will be needed and to remove it would be just silly, Choice is important.
Its important to note Flash on Android will be supported in ICS
chris
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 9:54 AMso why do none of the videos posted on giz/kotaku work on my iphone? wouldn’t be a lack of support on my phones behalf by any chance would it?
olearymo
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:00 AMreally? I think I’ve come across maybe 1 or 2 videos on giz that don’t work on ios because they’re from a small, proprietary video service. Anything else (youtube/vimeo), which make up 99% of the videos I see on Giz, have always worked just fine.
MDolley
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:30 AMHave to agree with olearymo – I have no problems viewing Gizmodo on my iPad. Very rarely have I come across articles with a video that doesn’t work.
Riavan
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 7:12 PMYou may have only seen youtube ones then, but tons each week still use the gawker media player, which won’t run on your precious waste of money, I mean, Ipad.
Rossco
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:00 AMHaters gonna hate…
Nathan
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:59 AMBut aren’t Apple users the 1%?
Blake
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 11:10 AMSure this would make total sense if:
HTML5 was finished yet,
Most ads weren’t in Flash,
All the HTML5 browsers supported hardware accelerated video,
Games were as easy to write in HTML as they are in Flash (particularly when it comes to linking to other players and leaderboards and such).
It’s going to be a long time before a Flash free web is really viable, a good 5 or so years at least.
It will happen, and that’ll be a good day, hopefully by then open source audio and video codecs will also be the norm (doubtful for audio, good chance of WebM overtaking h.264 though).
olearymo
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 1:16 PMGod you’ve summed it up perfectly Blake. This is what I keep trying to tell people.
Imagine if, when 802.11b hadn’t been finalised yet, we all threw out our CAT5 cables? The whole HTML5 thing simply isn’t finished yet. Like Blake says, and I’ve been trying to point out to people, sure, let’s ditch Flash and what will we do then? Hand code animations?
‘Occupy’, pfft. Get real.
Sketchy
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 11:10 AMAnother quality post from Gizmodo.
Dry your eyes mate, there are bigger problems in the world.
olearymo
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 1:14 PMso go out and comment on them maybe?
Riavan
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 7:10 PMProbably just some lame apple fanbois trying to stick up for steve jobs obvious want of money by banning flash, he keeps sheeple buying apps and apple makes a profit off, also stops flash mp3 players/video players, making people buy them from the itunes store instead.
There is nothing wrong with flash, if anything HTML5 and JAVA are worse.
Just This Guy ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 3:20 PMAlready purge all my systems of anything Adobe and never touch Apple anyway.
Flash just got used and abused as a transport for advertising for the most part and my experience has always been that Adobe software get’s its head stuck too deep into my gear for my liking.
As for Apple. Call me a hater if it makes you feel better, but I will not hand my money over to a company that behaves as Apple does. Full stop. Can live quite happily (probably happier) without them anyway.