@FightingWolf - There are versions of Linux that are supposedly spyware free. 

However, there is talk of spyware being built directly into various components such as mother boards these days, which will make whatever OS you use irrelevant no matter how open source it may be. Data mining is big business, and that business isn't going to let something like an OS get in their way. They will come up with other ways to collect info. 

Anyway, stop arguing and keep the thread on track. 

I don't see how Flash is so dead, since so many software titles still require it and much of what exists to supposedly relpace it still hasn't lived up to the claim, even HTML 5.