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Adobe Flash has been largely abandoned by mobile devices. As a security measure, some users are uninstalling it from their laptops & desktops. This can present problems viewing videos on some websites.
Some sites, including Netflix & YouTube will present videos in HTML5 to modern browsers.
Some other websites have been updated to present video in non-Flash format to mobile devices, but continue to serve Flash to other devices.
If you unistalled Flash from your laptop or desktop, & a web page asks that you install Flash before playing a video, How-to Geek has a solution:
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