According to him, this problem started in Chrome 56.

This worked
for me, and didn’t involve downloading additional software to make
up for Chrome changing defaults.

EDIT: According to this reddit thread, it looks like prefer-html-

over-flash has been removed from Chrome’s flags as of version 61.
There’s a couple threads of issues about this change on the
Chromium bug tracker, but none of them seem to offer any great
solutions beyond making an html page that has the swf you are
trying to play embedded.

Below in the comments there are some proposed solutions, but none
are up to my standards. If you come up with something, please share
it below as I’d like to get this working as well!

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