Article that'll never happen:
Adobe Announces No New Flaws Found In Flash This Month
Adobe has patched 35 security vulnerabilities in its Flash Player, all but one of which could lead to unexpected code execution. The fixes relate to vulnerabilities including 15 use-after-free, eight memory corruption, and five type confusion bugs. There are five code execution flaws relating to buffer overflows and a lone …
The problem is also that there are plenty of educational sites for kids that are paid and mandated by the education system that use flash. You know, the ones where they are set tasks as homework that require completion. I wish they didn't use the shit but it means I have to have at least one machine with flash on it and, no, it's not a VM as the kids don't get to use the main computer.
"The problem is also that there are plenty of educational sites for kids that are paid and mandated by the education system that use flash."
You might show your school district a few articles like this, point out that their continued mandate is putting your privacy and "your children's safety" at risk and suggest that they remove the mandate in the short-term while they find non-Flash alternatives for the long term.
It's long since time for Flash to die!
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Early 2000's it was the only reasonable way to play video in a browser and the only way to broadcast your camera/mic.
I used to work in the "webcam" industry ( nudge nudge ). Even 5 years ago, Flash was the only tool we could realistically use.
Some of Flash's unique features only got replaced with JS/HTML very recently. My current employer is phasing out our requirement for it, but development cycles are long. These things take time.
Good luck with that argument around here. "I don't need Flash, so no one needs Flash" is one of the tenets of the Reg religion.
It happens to be an opinion shared by some of the browser makers. How else do you explain Edge's plug-in hostility (Flash disappearing will only be a matter of time there) or iOS Safari's inability to run Flash?
The web browser world has seen how harmful proprietary solutions have been to making content accessible, and are now moving towards doing away with them now. The sun is setting on Flash, it is time to move on.
I pulled it from my home machine two weeks ago. The most surprising thing was that a whole bunch of entertainment sites I visit in the evening still work fine. (I have to pop over to youtube when Cyanide&Happiness do a video, but then... I had to before with flash installed anyway because the off-the-site performance was flakey for some reason.)
It is now gone from my work machine for over a week and I haven't noticed either.
BBC is an agency of the state. Its raison d’être is to keep the plebeians placid by means of carefully tuned propaganda. I doubt its political masters see using it as a watering hole via which to slip the odd more "subversive" pleb the odd trojan here and there as in anyway contrary to that purpose.
I stopped installing Flash on my own PC years ago, at least a decade. I don't miss it. A lot of web sites simply detect if you don't have Flash and use a different format. For the very, very, few that don't, there's nothing in Flash on those sites that I would care about anyway.
Before Youtube switched to not using it (it was phased out slowly), I used to use a video downloader program to simply download the videos and play them locally instead of in the browser. It's been a while since I've had to do that though.
The positive side of this was that I've seen nothing of the Flash ads that everyone is always complaining about. I've had 90% of the benefit of ad blocking without having to block ads. The negative side of the anti-Flash campaign is that a very small number of ad vendors have started using HTML5 to do the sort of annoying ads that they typically use Flash for. When the ad vendors drop Flash, I will be very sad indeed. I hope that browser vendors will take this into account and give people the opportunity to block third-party animations and video without having to block "normal" ads.
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.. but they MUST be introducing new ones as they go along or this would have become less and less of an issue. I have no idea what the hell these people do, but as far as I can tell they have no business writing consumer software. Unless, of course, they're having a deal with one of those shady agencies to wilfully be a source of vulnerabilities - after all, profit is profit.
My pet hate is the downloading installer. It means your anti-virus is checking an executable that is not actually the one that is eventually installed. I *seriously* dislike that.
Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, but the the Flash Player update that has just been forced on Windows 8.1 and 10 running IE 10 and 11 is the debug version of 18.0.0.232.
The Adobe help forums are already full of puzzled users wondering why they're suddenly being deluged with alert boxes. Expect a Windows update to follow soon...