It is up there with the spinning beach-ball of death for things to appear on your computer screen to drive you instantly, remorselessly, homicidally insane.
Being suddenly told that you want to watch a video, but no, you can’t watch that video, because the thing you would watch the video on hasn’t been updated, or simply doesn’t exist on your laptop, was keyboard smashingly infuriating.
Especially since it felt like we were CONSTANTLY updating or downloading something to do with the Flash Player, but with (and this is an educated guess here) about 19 updates being created for it every single day, it quickly became a thing nobody liked and everyone kind of wanted to go away.
And now, here we are. Sometimes dreams do come true.
The tech company Adobe made the announcement on their official blog today:
Over time, we’ve seen helper apps evolve to become plugins, and more recently, have seen many of these plugin capabilities get incorporated into open web standards. Today, most browser vendors are integrating capabilities once provided by plugins directly into browsers and deprecating plugins.
Given this progress, and in collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.
They will no longer be supporting the Flash Player from the year 2020, and will be winding down the use of the player until then.
With more outlets working from their own in-built video players (like every time you you scroll through Facebook and those videos just start playing by themselves), the necessity of needing to download additional software and then keep it constantly updated as finally come to an end.
RIP Flash Player (in a few years).
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