Adobe will finally kill Flash in 2020
Adobe Flash has been beaten, battered and bruised countless times over recent years. Now it’s finally going to die. The software will meet its demise by the end of 2020, Adobe said, closing a two-decade long chapter on one of the most popular and controversial pieces of technology in the history of the internet. “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats,” Adobe announced in a blog post on Tuesday. It’s tough to overstate the security impact Flash has had in the last two decades. The software has drawn denunciations — including “most frequently exploited product” — so many times that detractors as famous as Steve Jobs have called for its death for more than a decade. Adobe and a slate of tech giants now agree that the story needs and ending: Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla will end support for the technology […]
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