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Google Sticks Any other Knife in Flash's Corpse

The killing blow to multimedia device Flash made touch with its cranium in 2017, when maker Adobe introduced that it will start Flash’s “end-of-life” segment and forestall updating and distributing it by means of the top of 2020. Flash—which nerds of a definite age cohort might bear in mind from websites like Newgrounds or information like “annoying.swf”—has been riddled with safety holes that allowed malware supply since method earlier than the Flash emblem used to be formally retired in 2015, and it’s lengthy been changed in all however area of interest makes use of by means of successors just like the open-source HTML5.
The killing blow to multimedia software Flash made contact with its skull in 2017, when maker Adobe announced that it would begin Flash’s “end-of-life” phase and stop updating and distributing it by the end of 2020. Flash—which nerds of a certain age cohort may remember from sites like Newgrounds or files like “annoying.swf”—has been riddled with security holes that allowed malware delivery since way before the Flash brand was officially retired in 2015, and it’s long been replaced in all but niche uses by successors like the open-source HTML5.

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Author: Tom Mckay

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