The end of 2020 was seen as a positive for many, but it was bittersweet in at least one way: Adobe finally, officially killed Flash Player.
This didn’t come as a surprise, as Adobe had announced Flash would die with three years’ advance warning. It marks the end of a long era, one that at its peak gave bored teenagers ways to keep themselves entertained in the computer lab at high school. Before you could easily get high-quality games for free on your phone, you had to settle for copyright-infringing Flash nonsense. It was great.
Anyway, Flash is gone for good and Adobe wants people to rid their computers of any remnants of Flash Player because it’s not getting security updates anymore. “Useless” and “potentially dangerous down the road” makes for a bad combo. Thankfully, Adobe has official instructions for how to uninstall Flash Player on both Windows and Mac. Read more…
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