Adobe Flash Player has ceased to exist

Flash Player multimedia platform, which has been engaged in Adobe for the past 15 years, ceased to exist on December 31, 2020. Over the long history, this program deserved the glory of one of the most vulnerable.

Recall that in the summer of 2017, Adobe announced that she would stop updating and maintaining the Flash Player platform by the end of 2020. This decision in the company explained by the development of other standards, including HTML5, WebGL and WebASSEMBLY, which replace Flash Player when viewing multimedia content on the Internet.

In June of this year, Adobe reminded users that the deadline for support for the Adobe Flash Player program will expire on December 31, 2020. From today, the company will not only stop providing updates, but also remove all links to download Flash Player from its site. Thus, users will not be able to install software and continue to use the unsupported version. After January 12, 2021, Flash Player will completely stop playing content and will become useless - the program can be left on a PC, but it is recommended that the user be removed from the devices.

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- ALEC Behan (@alec_behan) December 31, 2020

The latest update of the global version of Flash Player was released in early December. The developers accompanied him with a farewell message, in which they thanked Flash Player users, and also noted the important role of the platform in the development of content on the Internet.

Adobe Flash is a technology created in 1996 and got Adobe as a result of the acquisition of Macromedia in 2005. It allows you to create multimedia interactive content with animation and sound on web pages. On the basis of Flash, sites and games were often created. At the same time, according to Symantec, Flash studies - a product with the largest number of “holes” from existing in the market, along with Adobe Acrobat.

Most likely, most users will not notice changes after the stopping of Flash Player - most sites already use alternative technologies. The exception can be old browser games created on Flash, but in this case the problem can be solved using the Ruffle emulator, which is available under the open license and can work at the site level, or at the browser level in the form of expansion.

Note that popular browsers have already partially or completely stopped support by Adobe Flash Player.