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[–] effusive_ermine 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It should have been this way from the beginning. In the bad old 1990s it was common to see a web page prompting to install an "plugin" or "codec" to play back desired content. There were dozens, if not hundreds, of unique plugin+codec combinations which users were conditioned to install to view content. You guessed it, lots of malware exploited this. When Flash video became a defacto standard it actually solved this problem from a user perspective, but we now know that Flash itself is a vector for malware.
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