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Adobe Has Finally and Formally Killed Flash

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 12 2021, @06:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-sorry-to-see-you-go dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave:

The Photoshop giant promised Flash would die on January 12, 2021. Thanks to the International Date Line, The Register's Asia-Pacific bureau, like other parts of the world, are already living in a sweet, sweet post-Flash future, and can report that if you try to access content in Adobe's Flash Player in this cyber-utopia, you'll see the following:

[...] Adobe's page also explains why you'll see the Flash Death Notice depicted above, rather than Flash content:

Since Adobe is no longer supporting Flash Player after the EOL Date, Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021 to help secure users' systems. Flash Player may remain on the user's system unless the user uninstalls it.

More specifically, what's happened is that Adobe snuck a logic bomb into its Flash software some releases ago that activates on January 12, and causes the code to refuse to render any more content from that date. Adobe has also removed previous versions from its site, and "strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems."

[...] Thus ends Flash, which started life in 1993 as a vector drawing product named SmartSketch, from long-dead company FutureWave Software. FutureWave turned SmartSketch into an animation tool called FutureSplash Animator. FutureWave was acquired by Macromedia in 1996, occasioning a name change to Macromedia Flash 1.0.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 12 2021, @06:39PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 12 2021, @06:39PM (#1098976) Journal

    tomorrow it will be in something that has us by the balls.

    You slept through that whole "Upgrade to Windows 10" thing, didn't you? There had to be tens of thousands of people who declined the upgrade, but had the upgrade force-fed to their machines. Likely hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions.

    It happened to my wife, despite all my effort to avoid the upgrade. We had to reinstall Win7 to make things work like she wanted them to.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:10PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:10PM (#1099108) Journal

    Dear User! Welcome to your Windows 10 Upgrade!!!

    Would you like to Upgrade to Windows 10?

    [x] Yes
    [_] No

    [___OK___] [___Cancel___]

    In order to upgrade to Windows 10, please do one of the following:
    * click Yes
    * click No
    * Click OK
    * Click Cancel
    * Click the X to close the popup window
    * Disconnect the computer's electrical power to have Windows 10 automatically installed at your next reboot

    Windows 10! From the people who brought you Vista and Edlin!

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