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The Trouble with Adobe Flash
To interact with Flash elements in your browser without using proprietary software, you have two options:
- Swfdec, which has good compatibility but abruptly ceased to be developed sometime in early 2009.
- Gnash, the GNU SWF player, which is being rapidly developed and relies on the gstreamer and ffmpeg backends to perform.
YouTube
The low-fidelity video-sharing phenomenon that is YouTube started in 2005 and took the world wide web by storm almost overnight. To the dismay of Free Software users everywhere, it transformed SWF from a desirable luxury to an unavoidable necessity. Soon after, Google Inc. bought out the service and has ran it ever since. In 2010, like Theora.
