I generally agree with the idea it should be celebrated and it is
user-subjugating.
What Canonical does has little impact in general on what web sites use.
Mozilla has a much bigger impact on what web sites use.
The problem is Adobe has discontinued flash for GNU/Linux firefox. Not for
firefox. If Mozilla blocks the plug-in on Microsoft Windows it will have a
positive impact. It won't change things terribly though. It will reduce the
negative impact to users of free operating systems in some cases.
Many of the web sites which require the non-free flash player will just find
some other way to work around it that still doesn't work on free platforms.
Neither Google or Mozilla are doing enough to oppose non-free software.
Google can be said to actively promote non-free software. Mozilla to a lesser
extent.
