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posted by chromas on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the made-with-macromedia dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Only 4.9 percent of today's websites utilize Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 percent market share recorded at the start of 2011.

The number, courtesy of web technology survey site W3Techs, confirms Flash's decline, and a reason why Adobe has decided to retire the technology at the end of 2020.

[...] On the client side, browser makers are expected to remove Flash support from their products altogether by the end of 2020 —Flash's end-of-life date.

2020 can't come soon enough.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/flash-used-on-5-percent-of-all-websites-down-from-285-percent-seven-years-ago/


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 21 2018, @03:13AM (7 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday April 21 2018, @03:13AM (#669919) Homepage

    I see none of you inhabited Newgrounds during the turn of the century. From a modern security perspective, Flash is evil. But there were the good ol' days.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 21 2018, @03:16AM (5 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday April 21 2018, @03:16AM (#669921) Homepage

    Somewhat Related. [youtube.com] And that is totally on-topic. Fuck you downmodding niggers.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:04AM (4 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:04AM (#669937) Journal

      I'm with TMB on flash. It was hell to make it work, and as soon as it was working, I couldn't wait to get rid of it. I suppose that a person who enjoys poking himself in the eye with a sharp stick might like flash. Do you still hang out on MySpace? Flash Freaks loved that hellhole, didn't they? That, and Geoshitties.

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:12AM (2 children)

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:12AM (#669941) Homepage

        It was hell to make it work

        Welcome to the world of Linux (or otherwise Android development), my friend.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21 2018, @07:39PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21 2018, @07:39PM (#670145)

          whoa wait

          i read he said the best flash is at mardi gras, and so ding yeah man I'm totally in agreement.

          then someone says "it was hell to make it work" in agreement with TMB

          dude so like me explain. when the prong go into the port, look at the flash. it'll all make sense. if you still have problems making it work, you need a pro to help--try finding some porn to get the general idea

          • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 21 2018, @08:11PM

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday April 21 2018, @08:11PM (#670154) Homepage

            Your writing style has changed. You're sounding more like Kurt Vonnegut now. But he died...or so he would like them to beLIEve.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21 2018, @01:02PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21 2018, @01:02PM (#670037)

        That, and Geoshitties.

        Yeah! Geoshitties was so bad! So glad we have the modern internet with all those "15 things you didn't know about Coffee, #7 will blow you away!" and all that other clickbait. Those Geoshitties punks and their wild page experiments. What plebs! A page that doesn't load without 10mb Javascript Library?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 21 2018, @03:23AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday April 21 2018, @03:23AM (#669926) Homepage Journal

    Flash was evil even back in the day. If you didn't hate it in the 90s, it's only because you were too young to appreciate the buttfucking of the web that was occurring thanks to Flash.

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