They're going to stop distributing it, which means users won't be able to (officially) download it anymore. Most browsers are already actively blocking it to some extent even if you do have it installed. Mobile abandoned Flash years ago. Any public-facing site that requires Flash will absolutely be taking an audience hit for continuing to require it, if they aren't already.
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Adobe to kill Flash in 2020
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They're going to stop distributing it, which means users won't be able to (officially) download it anymore. Most browsers are already actively blocking it to some extent even if you do have it installed. Mobile abandoned Flash years ago. Any public-facing site that requires Flash will absolutely be taking an audience hit for continuing to require it, if they aren't already.
If they don't stop, then users won't be able to see their content. The major browser vendors concurrently announced they'll stop supporting Flash at the same time. And since it won't be distributed, you won't be able to install it.
Google: https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/
Chrome will continue phasing out Flash over the next few years, first by asking for your permission to run Flash in more situations, and eventually disabling it by default. We will remove Flash completely from Chrome toward the end of 2020.
Microsoft: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/07/25/flash-on-windows-timeline/#quTQWlFCTzCQjWv4.97
By the end of 2020, we will remove the ability to run Adobe Flash in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer across all supported versions of Microsoft Windows. Users will no longer have any ability to enable or run Flash.
Funyarinpa
Member
This will kill the original "n" game 
I'm not against Flash per se, it has provided for some great and creative web content back in the day and has obviously inspired to pave the way for alternative technologies we use today, but agree there's no necessity for it anymore.
After every OS (re)install I do I only install Flash if I absolutely need it, which is less and less. On my current install I haven't had to use Flash yet...
After every OS (re)install I do I only install Flash if I absolutely need it, which is less and less. On my current install I haven't had to use Flash yet...
NekoFever
Member
It doesn't. I'm using Safari and don't have the standalone Flash plugin installed.
We're not talking about anything. You lied to me!!
Jason Frost
Member
Only in 2020 is in a flash for you?
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
So who's going to port that Winnie the Pooh baseball flash game?
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I guess its grandfathered. If you already had it its still there and maintained by Adobe and Safari supports it if it is.
Either way Im glad itll be dying. Hopefully it dies earlier.
I thought Grodd was supposed to be smart.
LMAO, I was about to make this joke.
Omnii-chan
Member
"The Abobe Flash plugin has crashed"
Good. Useless program always crashing.
Good. Useless program always crashing.
Flash outlived Quicktime... Thank god
HarryDemeanor
Member
MLB.TV and WWE Network still use flash.
Hope they already begun working on the transition.
Hope they already begun working on the transition.
Damn, need to go back to this one, still haven't beaten it.
Also, whatever are they going to do with all the flash games and loop websites? I need my Dancing Jesus Home Page.
http://z0r.de/?id=1024
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
For games theres HTML5. For loops, well, its APNGs time to shine!
Anyone?
Animated PNG anyone?
Anyone?
Animated PNG anyone?
Always-honest
Banned
Love Adobe, but good news, i guess.
HEIF baby.
BlazinSkatinAxel
Member
You could say that it's final.....
Business opportunity for them is spending more money to replace something they think works just fine? Good luck to you.
Hey Bar, do you have a sec?
HBO Go
Wag
Member
He's talking- that ain't bad for an ape who's name isn't Ceasar.
Twilight Gap
Member
RIP Newgrounds
I remember the time Android was supposedly superior because it still had Flash. I honestly think that a year from that day all major stuff internet related moved away from flash. Nowadays I cant think of a single website that uses it.
btw, I got a CHromebook today and I was really surprised that I got a notification saying that "flash will be updated on the next boot". I was like "what? flash? why???"
btw, I got a CHromebook today and I was really surprised that I got a notification saying that "flash will be updated on the next boot". I was like "what? flash? why???"
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It's supposedly been dead for a decade but I don't know how people live without it. Must be a hard life owning an Apple device.
Twilight Gap
Member
chaturbate has better models anyway
IdreamofHIME
Member
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
This follows the death of Director/Shockwave earlier this year.
I made a couple of games in Director around 1995 using the same CGI sprites optimized for custom palettes approach as the Donkey Kong Country series.
End of an era. RIP
I made a couple of games in Director around 1995 using the same CGI sprites optimized for custom palettes approach as the Donkey Kong Country series.
End of an era. RIP
webcivilian
Member
I'm so relieved to know that Microsoft is keeping Internet Explorer beyond 2020. /s
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Good.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
wwf better get to updating their trash network then. thing is flash through and through. maybe they can make search useful while they're at it
For a hyper-intelligent gorilla, that's a weird conclusion to come to
HarryDemeanor
Member
Vince is going to give Flash the Roman Reigns treatment.
Fox Mulder
Member
Courage.
Fuck flash, like a decade ago.
Fuck flash, like a decade ago.