<html><body>I believe what was meant by that is that some less trustworthy advertisers may serve unrevised content, and that content might happen to be the "law-enforcement-hacked flash video". And beside that, activating *all* Flash elements at once is both more memory consuming and CPU workload-heavy. I don't think there still are sites with more than one or two Flash elements around, but it happens. Also not everybody uses an ad blocker, so clicking on a YouTube video sometimes may lead to a distracting animated ad being loaded next to it.<br><br>But to be honest, the change that seriously bothers me isn't really the fact that all elements are loaded by a click on a single element. The doorhanger that always opens and requires an additional click is pretty damn irritating, and so is the notification panel. If this thing was open for voting or whatever, I would vote for the doorhanger removal.<br><br><p>---------- Original message ----------<br>From: Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbosch@gmail.com><br>To: firefox-dev@mozilla.org<br>Date: 29. 8. 2014 23:52:09<br>Subject: Re: Click to play (per element) recent changes to firefox 24 and
up</p><br><blockquote>On 28/08/2014 00:54, mailinglists@paridiom.net wrote:<br>> Can you please add that feature back. There are reports now that two <br>> security firms are selling tech to law enforcement that allows them to <br>> legally own a system though a youtube video. I dont want firefox <br>> development to get a bad reputation of deliberately removing security <br>> features that are meant to protect your users.<br>How does click-to-play-per-element, as opposed to <br>click-to-play-per-page/site, help against that threat vector? It's not <br>like you'd be able to tell apart the law-enforcement-hacked flash video <br>from the "normal" flash video from the grey "click to play" box...<br><br>~ Gijs<br>_______________________________________________<br>firefox-dev mailing list<br>firefox-dev@mozilla.org<br>https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev</blockquote></body></html>