'Adobe Flash Is Actually Going to Die' In 194 Days

An anonymous reader quotes Gizmodo:

Three years ago, long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash would reach its end-of-life. Now we know: Adobe Flash is going to officially die on December 31, 2020.

While younger folks should be forgiven for not knowing about Flash, during the late 90s, and into the 2000s, huge swaths of the internet relied on Flash to add interactivity to websites in the form of animations, games, and even videos… While Flash won’t just vanish into thin air on December 31, Adobe says that it will stop distributing and updating Flash. Critically, that also means Flash won’t be getting any further security or privacy patches.

For a software platform that lasted more than two decades and played a huge part in the Dot-com bubble of the late 90s and early 2000s, Flash lasted a lot longer than most people probably ever expected. So pour one out for the software that brought us wonderful time-wasters like YTMND and Homestar Runner. It’s been real, but it’s time to go.

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:cry: R.I.P Adobe Flash Player :cry:
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But this was happened ::
:pushpin: Adobe Flash Player is dead, yet 10% of Macs are infected with fake Flash malware​:joy:

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then what we will use instead of Adobe Flash in normal build pc?

We had some good times, we had some bad times. R.I.P. Flash :cry:

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Good Lord! Why did it take this long?

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