{"id":226,"date":"2009-01-29T23:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/flash-hate\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T23:30:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T04:30:40","slug":"flash-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/flash-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t like Flash because it is responsible for the overwhelming majority of my browser crashes. I don\u2019t like it because it consumes memory and (especially) CPU resources on my computer for almost the sole purpose of showing me advertisements, which also translates directly to reduced battery life on my laptop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> But it\u2019s interesting to note that it\u2019s quite a technical and ethical challenge to run a browser without Flash.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/stevenf.tumblr.com\/post\/73315911\/the-politics-of-flash\">Steven Frank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written before about <a href=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/optimize-cpu-usage-of-your-website\/\">how important it is to optimize CPU usage of your website for the mobile world<\/a>.  And this is yet another reason for anyone who is add-supported.  People will tolerate advertisements that are just there.  But when they kill their work time, or are otherwise malignant, then they will <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/rentzsch\/clicktoflash\/tree\/master\">take active steps to stop them<\/a>.  And that means no more advertising revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t like Flash because it is responsible for the overwhelming majority of my browser crashes. I don\u2019t like it because it consumes memory and (especially) CPU resources on my computer for almost the sole purpose of showing me advertisements, which also translates directly to reduced battery life on my laptop. &#8230; But it\u2019s interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[321,166,322,81,158],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-adobe","tag-advertising","tag-flash","tag-internet","tag-optimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}