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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by rtpg on Saturday January 03, 2015 @02:47AM (#8830196)
DRM is not the reason youtube uses flash, browser support and feature usage. HTML5 video APIs are still frustrating to use compared to flash's pretty well built-out mechanisms.
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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by eleusive on Saturday January 03, 2015 @06:34AM (#8830522)
Advertisers also love to serve video ads on a flash platform because it lets them perform custom analytics, logic, etc.
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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by psykovsky on Saturday January 03, 2015 @08:01AM (#8830655)
And don't forget the part where flash is a backdoor to users computers. It can bypass proxies and give them your real IP, and I'm not sure even google will want that to go away.
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