Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-28822533-20160819095727/@comment-24473195-20160819122213

Flash is often used for video or interactive ads because it is one of the few ways advertisers can send out videos that aren't easy to copy (or steal). Although truthfully, it is a dumb solution. Anything that can be seen can be copied.

I also noticed the flash when running wikia through webpagetest.com. They use up a considerable portion of the bandwith, and make pages take longer to load.