They had HTML5 video as a beta option for quite a while, and actually dropped Flash in favor of it as the default player about 4 months ago: http://www.theverge

They had HTML5 video as a beta option for quite a while, and actually dropped Flash in favor of it as the default player about 4 months ago: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-flash-for-html5-video-default http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-flas...