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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: 4, Funny) by hash14 on Tuesday January 12 2021, @07:25PM (2 children)

    by hash14 (1102) on Tuesday January 12 2021, @07:25PM (#1099014)

    Our Corporate IT staff just told us to turn our clocks back to 2020 so we can continue using it. They decided it was the cheaper, and therefore, better solution over having to migrate all our shite.

    As a side benefit, no certificate updates needed anymore either! So novel, we just have to accept that it'll be 2020 forever. Anyway, I guess they're all using Manjaro on their home machines.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @11:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @11:38AM (#1099367)

    Let me guess, C-level all Trumpers?

  • (Score: 2) by Zinho on Wednesday January 13 2021, @03:14PM

    by Zinho (759) on Wednesday January 13 2021, @03:14PM (#1099410)

    Our Corporate IT staff just told us to turn our clocks back to 2020 so we can continue using it.

    I just tried that on my home computer, and the flash plugin wasn't fooled. I hope your org has better luck.

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