Adobe announces Flash EOL date

[free780]

Has anyone started disabling it via GPO yet? Joking aside there should be pressure on sites to stop using Flash.

[LeMarchand]

Flash's decline is going well!

 

Google Chrome: Flash Usage Declines from 80% in 2014 to Under 8% Today

 

Shame that 8% are predominantly the education sites the majority of teachers use

 

Has anyone started disabling it via GPO yet? Joking aside there should be pressure on sites to stop using Flash.

 

Aye. Would love to block Flash, but it would never fly.

[mavhc]

I don't enable it, so they have to click to enable

[free780]

Could block it in IE and Edge. But allow in Chrome. When Google finally kill it say too bad.

2020 is going to be intresting.

EOL Flash,Windows 7, Server 2008R2 etc.

[Arthur]

Chrome 69 will take the next step to killing Flash

 

Chrome 69, due to be released on 4 September is going to take the next step toward phasing out support for Adobe's Flash plugin.

 

Chrome started deprecating Flash in 2016, defaulting to HTML5 features and requiring Flash to be enabled on a per-site basis. Currently, that setting is sticky: if Flash is enabled for a site, it will continue to be enabled across sessions and restarts of the browser.

 

That changes in Chrome 69—Flash will have to be enabled for a site every time the browser is started. This means that Flash content will always need positive, explicit user permission to run, making the use of the plugin much more visible—and much more annoying.

[FishCustard]

Good riddance to bad rubbish. It served a purpose 10-15 years ago, but it's long overdue a burial.

[mavhc]

I wonder if one could auto convert flash to webassembly automatically, you'd think Adobe would be right on that