Quite ironic though, that the article got published on a site that still uses Flash.

Personally I thought the grey rectangles ("click to play" mostly eliminated my need for ad blockers) emphasized the point.

It's all well and good the current sentiment, however the last hold outs are legacy sites that have long been put into maintenance updates only and large sites that take years to change, like BBC News.

Firefox's change doesn't have the weight behind it. If Chrome followed suite it would be a different story.

Truely