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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by fafner on Saturday February 07, 2015 @05:13AM (#9013598)
> fetches it at startup from Adobe's site

Source?

Anyway, even if you can download and sandbox the Adobe module it might be a violation of the license agreement. This can even be a criminal offence in many countries because of special laws about circumventing DRM!

What about operating systems and hardware platforms not supported by Adobe or Google? PowerPC, MIPS, Tizen, *BSD, etc.

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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by reubenmorais on Saturday February 07, 2015 @08:57AM (#9013960)
It's a convoluted process, but Firefox pings the update server, which returns a list of proprietary blobs to potentially install.

It looks like this with Cisco's OpenH264 plugin and Adobe's CDM: https://aus4-dev.allizom.org/update/3/GMP/36.0a1/20120222174...

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