Adobe announced Tuesday that the company would stop providing updates and stop distributing Flash Player at the end of 2020.
The move has been applauded by many, as Adobe Flash has been infamous for frequent zero-day attacks, which is why it has long been one of the favourite tools for hackers and cyber criminals.
To put a full stop on Flash, many major tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Youtube, Google Chrome, Firefox had been magnetised towards the new substitutor - HTML 5.
- Microsoft just announced its plans to disable Flash Player by default in Edge and Internet Explorer in 2019, with a full removal from all supported versions of Windows by 2020.
- Google will continue phasing out Flash over the next few years by blocking auto-playing of Flash ads by default on its browser.
- In January last year, YouTube moved away from Flash for delivering videos.
- Mozilla also blocked the Flash plugin entirely from Firefox and will allow Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) users to keep using Flash until the end of 2020.
- Apple's Safari currently requires explicit permission on each website even when Mac users opt to install Flash.
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