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  "textContent": "Youtube had a Flash player in the late 00s. By then the only use for Flash was for playing streaming video. Embedded Youtube had killed off the use case of directly embedded videos that would require a VLC or other dedicated video NPAPI plugin. Flash based websites and website navigation had gone out of fashion in response to critique about their being un indexable by search engines and not supporting accessibility. What little was left for document viewing (again mostly PDF) was replaced by PDF.js. And Flash games while popular in the late 90s/early 00s had also mostly stopped being developed.\nSo the idea that HTML5 video would replace the need for Flash video playback got extended to getting rid of NPAPI altogether - as though Flash was the only reason to use it.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Flash vs. Ruffle",
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