My first thought as well, but aren't there older youtube videos that haven't been converted to html5-friendly formats?

I've been using Safari without flash for a while now, and it used to be like that, but lately it's been extremely rare to find any which aren't html5 compatible.

Probably. But I'll live without full unfettered access to Youtube's back catalog, which access I don't pay a dime for.

To say nothing of youtube-dl.

I fail to see the relation between the OP and your message.

The only reason I kept Chrome around is because I occasionally wanted to watch Youtube videos that were Flash only. I wasn't going to install Flash system-wide, so I was grateful for Google's approach of maintaining a private Flash instance. Now, that usecase is become less of a problem, so I can ditch Chrome, which I never used otherwise.

You could have watched a video on Youtube on Firefox for the last year at least. It was a setting in your Youtube account.

Some people like not having accounts on any random website that will be used for tracking and targetting.

Do these people use Chrome ?

It was the best way to run Flash programs without installing Flash system-wide.

Parent was a bit wrong; you didn't need an account or to be signed in. IIRC, you went to youtube.com/html5 and enabled it.

>I occasionally wanted to watch Youtube videos that were Flash only

Are there any examples of flash only video? I used to use a 3rd party extension that would show videos in html5 and i never came accross any video that required me to load it in flash. I'm curious how Youtube tries to deliver those videos now.

There used to be many. I haven't encountered one in a while, however.

about in video in academia, ever.

He's saying his only use of chrome, a browser OP does not prefer, was for flash. Now that OP's primary method of media consumption has switched away from flash, so can OP switch away from chrome.

he probably only have chrome because it have the built-in flash