This was very long overdue for a variety of reasons. While Flash became almost ubiquitous on the web under Macromedia before being acquired by Adobe, it was also full of .
Apple never offered Flash on it’s mobile devices and helped to drive developers to make use of modern HTML5 to accomplish many of the same effects.
Flash “cookies” were buried deep within the application and were not easily removed by users making them very useful for tracking users.
Timeline:
| Step | Date |
| End of Life Announced | July 25, 2017 |
| End of support | December 31, 2020 |
| Flash blocked | January 12, 2021 |
Support:
| Browser | Blocked | Removed |
| Chrome | 76 | 88 |
| Firefox | 69 | 85 |
| Safari | 14 |
- https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
- https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/07/25/adobe-flash-update.html
- https://www.computerworld.com/article/3403345/where-do-browsers-stand-on-flashs-impending-demise.html