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Re:What's new in Flash 11 by mikeleeorg on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @09:17PM (#3024403)
I've been using Chrome's FlashBlock extension and loving it:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiab...

For those who want to take melling up on this challenge (and I would encourage it because it's an eye-opening experience to see much your favorite websites depend on Flash, or not), this extension is a nice bridge.

Flash embeds aren't loaded automatically. Instead, a placeholder appears instead. Clicking on that placeholder loads the Flash file, so you can selectively choose which Flash embeds to see.

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Re:What's new in Flash 11 by keeperofdakeys on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @10:24PM (#3024585)
Chrome has an inbuilt plugin blocker, that does the same as flash blocker. You may need to activate it in about:flags to see the option in the plugin settings. An advantage is that it doesn't depend on javascript, so it is friendly with the javascript blocker in chrome, if you are feeling very paranoid.
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Re:What's new in Flash 11 by dgroves on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @09:43PM (#3024470)
Indeed, people should be aware of both how widely it is used, so they can be outraged and call for a change. Namely - the death of flash.
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