This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Frederic Lardinois, writing for TechCrunch: Adobe today announced that Flash, the once-ubiquitous plugin that allowed you to play your first Justin Bieber video on YouTube and Dolphin Olympics 2 on Kongregate, will be phased out by the end of 2020. At that point, Adobe will stop updating and distributing Flash. Until then, Adobe will still partner with the likes of Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft and Google to offer security updates for Flash in their browsers and support new versions of them, but beyond that, Adobe will not offer any new Flash features. Good riddance. Expand - View Original
hopefully this means websites will start using other things cause i don't even have it installed on firefox
I hope that will give enough time for HTML5 and Javascript to evolve to the point that they can completely replace all of its features. But yeah, as a Systems Administrator, Flash is a huge pain in the ass. It annoyed our users with popups (which meant it annoyed us as admins), so we suppressed notifications and started deploying all the updates ourselves. But that means I have to deal with deploying updates for Flash more often typically than even updates for Windows. Glad to see it gone.
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