On the 31st of December 2020, Adobe began the End of Life (EOL) cycle for its web development program Flash Player.
After a three-year-old announcement by the company that it would eventually block all content from running on the software, it is finally coming to an end on the 12th of January, with the company blocking all programs reliant on Flash Player completely.
The reasoning for Flash s prolonged retirement is both a reaction to the dwindling usage and decline of security. In a report from Google in July 2017, it states that the frequency of Chrome users visiting a site with Flash-integrated programs has declined from 80% to only 17% over a three-year period.