Adobe Flash Player Support Officially Ends Tonight

[Tsing]

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Back in 2017, Adobe announced that it would cease support for its classic multimedia software, Flash Player, at the end of 2020. With today being December 31, 2020, the company will officially cut ties with the decades-old platform at the stroke of midnight. Flash content will also be blocked from running in Flash Player beginning on January 12.



“Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems,” the company wrote on its Adobe Flash Player EOL General Information Page. “Some users may continue to see...

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[Zarathustra]

Ah. Only 10 years overdue.

Let it go to the dust heap of history along with RealPlayer

With it finally gone the Internet will be a better place.

 

[Dogsofjune]

Ding dong the wicked witch is dead.....

 

[Auer]

Bye!

I built a lot of silly ad banners when it was still Macromedia...
Easy money back then, and a nice side gig for a Staging/Lighting/Photographer in NYC.

Last I used was Flash Professional 8.

 

[Burticus]

LOL I think at work we still have some platforms that use flash for the mgmt gui's. I expect there will be lots of panic upgrades in Jan to get off of flash dependent versions.