Adobe Flash Is Actually Going to Die This Time, For Real
Found on Gizmodo on Monday, 22 June 2020
Three years ago, long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash would reach its end-of-life. Now we know: Adobe Flash is going to officially die on December 31, 2020.
For a software platform that lasted more than two decades and played a huge part in the Dot-com bubble of the late 90s and early 2000s, Flash lasted a lot longer than most people probably ever expected.
Also, Flash was one of the worst pieces of software from a security point of view. It should have vanished a decade ago.