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This is the movement in order to free the internet from Adobe’s Flash plug-in. There are many reasons people want Flash gone. The major argument of the movement is that Flash is already too old, it is complicated, crashes a lot. Flash is holding back the internet, Flash content could not be viewed using most of the mobile devices, and Adobe is not planning to develop it.

The time for the plug-ins like Flash is gone, HTML5 has all its features and even more. For example the content on web page could be embedded into website code, and video could be viewed even offline.

“Occupy Flash” is encouraging people to remove Flash plug-in from their browser, in order to create a consistent internet for web designers.

However there has been a lot of dissatisfaction about Occupy Flash from Flash developers, as they believe that the movement is taking their business away. Occupy Flash opponents believe that Flash does not harm the internet, it only adds more.

“Occupy Flash” movement can be seen as a bit extreme. Without a doubt HTML5 is the future of the Internet, however it does not mean that something popular as Flash now should be fought against. HTML5 can not offer what Flash has to offer now, there are more Flash developers, and even such website as Youtube can not fully operate when using HTML5.

Image Source: http://occupyflash.org/