Chrome will soon block Flash ads and auto-playing background media
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Web users around the world, rejoice. Google will be skewering most Flash ads with prejudice come September 1. The company has announced that Chrome will begin automatically pausing resource-hogging Flash ads, in a bid to improve PCs' performance and battery life.
This move was announced last June , but the deadline is now looming. AdWords already converts most Flash ads to HTML5 automatically, and Google encourages ...