Post-Flashpocalypse, we stumble outside, hoping no one ever creates software as insecure as that ever again Share
Adobe has finally and formally killed Flash.
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:
The Flash Death Notice . Click to enlarge
The above just now showed up on your correspondent’s Windows 10 PC, which is running version 32.0.0.645 of the 64-bit Flash Plugin, when opening some content to test. The image is clickable and leads to Adobe’s Flash Player EOL General Information Page where netizens are advised to uninstall Flash and fire it into the heart of the Sun (we re paraphrasing Adobe, here.)