Great idea. I think it would help if we all use the same destination email addresses as in big companies there are plenty of different points of contact and if each one of them only gets 1 or 2 emails we will likely remain unheard.
Marc can you please share the email addresses you used to reach out to Facebook and Youtube? On 19 September 2014 13:48, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > with a recent configuration, videos work fine in the browser. > *however* a lot of websites still give you only flash videos. > Or do they ? > > There's this nifty extension in chrome to fudge the user-agent > (called user-agent switcher) where you can play at browsing from > a tablet. Surprise: those video sites work again (in some cases, > you have to fight a bit more, go explicitly to the mobile version > and not let them switch you back to the desktop mode). > > It's obvious those guys aren't testing on OpenBSD. It's also obvious > they know how to switch to a non flash version on given user-agents. > > So what about a little "mail your favorite website campaign". Figure out > one website where you can't watch videos, and send some kind of email > feedback to them. Tell them in no uncertain terms that "flash does not > exist on OpenBSD, and if they see OpenBSD in the user-agent, then they > should go to plain h264 videos, which they have". > > Offenders include youtube (sometimes, mostly VEVO stuff), wimp.com, > facebook. > Probably some others. > > I don't think they will notice if I'm the only guy doing that. But if they > get a few pointed emails over the coming weeks, maybe they might fix their > act, and hey, maybe we'll get videos mostly everywhere... > > -- The best the little guy can do is what the little guy does right
