The demise of Flash is nigh!
Big bully Google. Now that it make a decent player without flash for youtube, it think it can dictate the standard. Every browser has an option to auto-pause flash since forever. keyword: option. But google don't want you to decide what's good for you. You need to have your google+ account linked to youtube. You need to not use flash, you need to be kind to driver-less car, you need a glass to go to the internet. So far that kind of arrogance didn't work so well.
I find that every banking site, every investment site, every insurance site, every licensing site and every site in which confidential information is disclosed does not work without flash installed and active. I have it set to demand-load in Chrome and there's about a 70% chance that everywhere I need to type a password will need to be reloaded with flash active to not give me a blank screen.
I agree 100%. This is just a slow, painful death.