Adobe to kill off Flash plug-in by 2020
Found on BBC News on Tuesday, 25 July 2017
Adobe's vice president of product development, Govind Balakrishnan, said the firm had chosen to end Flash because other technologies, such as HTML5, had "matured enough and are capable enough to provide viable alternatives to the Flash player."
In 2014 it was used each day by 80% of desktop users, according to Google. The current figure is just 17%.
"Matured enough"? Flash has a long history of serious bugs and security problems, and was the cause for countless infections with malware.