Re: Adobe Flash

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 17:50:18 moxalt wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +0000, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org> for
> > > user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't subscribe
> > > the debian-user list.)
> > >
> > > To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install youtube-dl:
> > > $ apt-get install youtube-dl
> >
> > Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel, or watch with Google
> > Chrome.  I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those do.  I
> > watch that news-site all the time, several times a day most days, and
> > browse over the whole site; sometimes just to see if there has been a new
> > newsflash on an important story.  Think of the disk-space needed if I
> > were to download everything every time!
>
> http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html#SpywareInFlash
>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/adobe-pushes-drm-flash
>
> Fortunately YouTube no longer requires Flash. Unfortunately, it still
> mandates the running of non-free JavaScript, and is firmly under the thumb
> of Google.
>
> YouTube can be accessed and videos on it can be viewed with a free web
> browser which supports HTML5, of which there are many. More and more
> websites now support HTML5 (or similar) video-streaming mechanisms. This is
> a good thing.
>
> For those websites which still require Flash, you should find some way of
> downloading the video (preferably in an open format).

So for perfection, don't watch the news.  The OP is currently watching the 
news on Doze.  Hardly more secure than flash on Linux.

Lisi