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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by steckerbrett on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:42PM (#9873990)
What websites use it? I've not encountered a single incompatible website recently, and haven't had flash installed for a long time now.
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by archgoon on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:47PM (#9874015)
Facebook's inline video player uses it. On linux, I get a popup saying that I must install Flash.
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by toja92 on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:52PM (#9874031)
In Safari on OS X, Facebook does use the native <video> player.

I'm guessing that Facebook encodes video h264 which isn't natively supported in Firefox; rather it relies on support in the operating system. I'm not sure if Chrome on Linux supports h264, however since Chrome also includes its own Flash player I guess that Facebook may be using their own flash player anyway.

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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by hkmix on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:01PM (#9874063)
Pretty sure there are some settings you need to enable in about:config to get H264 working in Firefox (assuming you have the right gstreamer stuff installed).
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by nitrogen on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:09PM (#9874100)
Firefox can also install the free Cisco h.264 codec.
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by therealmarv on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:47PM (#9874011)
FB is using it a lot. For videos, for uploading pictures.
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by Kliment on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:10PM (#9874105)
BBC iPlayer is flash-only
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by cormullion on Sunday July 12, 2015 @02:29PM (#9874380)
Not just iPlayer - the main BBC website - including news/weather/sport - requires Flash to display all video content on desktops.
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by skrebbel on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:44PM (#9874002)
Porn sites.
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by ran290 on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:57PM (#9874048)
All my frequent porn sites support HTML5 video now
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by dhimes on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:54PM (#9874041)
Good question. There were some I had to use Chrome to view (espn, cnn, facebook-- somebody) and I was quite surprised.
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by MatthiasP on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:05PM (#9874083)
twitch.tv
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by sobkas on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:13PM (#9874119)
You can play streams with: livestreamer

http://docs.livestreamer.io/

And chat trough their irc server.

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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by DavideNL on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:59PM (#9874287)
I don't think that's needed, i'm looking at Twitch right now (via the normal way) - and i don't have Flash installed.
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by darklajid on Sunday July 12, 2015 @02:13PM (#9874324)
On an iOS or Apple device?
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by DavideNL on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @11:46AM (#9885788)
OS X, Yosemite, Safari
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by Redoubts on Sunday July 12, 2015 @01:13PM (#9874118)
HBO Go
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