The disappearance of Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash was present in multitudes of web pages, but by the end of this 2016 step of being present in the 50% of the first 10,000 web pages of the ranking of alexa to be present only in the 10%.
News that highlights the disappearance of adobe flash
- Firefox and Facebook announced that they will block adobe flash.
- Theft of documents to the Hacking Team (an Italian company dedicated to creating surveillance and espionage tools), filtering 400gb of information and a list of its customers.
- Many web pages are beginning to migrate to HTML5 for greater security.
Security Failures (the most known)
- Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier versions allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash application).
- Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.226 and earlier versions allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
- Adobe Flash Player18.0.0.324, 19.x, 20.x overflow in Windows and OS X. Before 11.2.20.20.55 on Linux.
- Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.194 and previous versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, allowed an attacker to take control of the affected system after a successful exploitation, these are evident in the case of the Hacking Team.
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This can't disappear fast enough. I have to download an update for this almost every day on my linux laptop. Then it often wreaks havoc when one of those flash adds load on a web page. Have it turned off most of the time now anyway unless I'm on youtube or some other video site that uses it.
I use a Linux laptop and I don't have flash at all.
I miss nothing.
What ever depends on flash do not deserve to be used at all.
Couldn't agree with you more. Sooner or later I'll probably just remove it all together.
This is the end of an era. I used Flash3 and still do for some simple graphics work. If it were not for Adobe Flash there would be no YouTube. Nevermind bandwidth speeds back then, trying to put a 3mb video was still difficult in 1999. I am sure useful plugins are already wrapped up in other software packages Adobe also has.