I'm not going to try and summarize it so read the source of this information:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/chromium-dev/HTML5$20by$20default/chromium-dev/0wWoRRhTA_E/__E3jf40OAAJ
Other articles on the web are covering this too.
Well they want to enable Flash still for 10 of the most used Websites (whitelist them)
& prompt Users for other Websites that require Flash.
Although, I thought that YouTube & Facebook already support HTML5
and Flash is not a necessity to run them?!
So why would I want to whitelist them - with YouTube being a Sister Company to Mother Alphabet, Chrome should request HTML5 from YouTube and only switch Flash on, when it is absolutely necessary (e.g. old Flash based Content.)
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