Is there anyone out there besides corporations and advertisers that want to take over your entire screen with ads who still thinks Flash is a good thing?
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Very sadly, yes. We have certain work tools and training sites requires Flash. It's easy to say just get off it, but in reality there is a cost to migrate to another langugage
How many years must Flash exist
Before there's no Adobe?
How many times must our browsers crash
Before we have security?
How many updates must Flash request
Before its last CVE?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Before there's no Adobe?
How many times must our browsers crash
Before we have security?
How many updates must Flash request
Before its last CVE?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
I still have to use it for many sites even on my iPhone using third party flash streamers.
The Internet is still flash in 2016. We have moved a lot forward but flash is still king. Unfortunately
I do. But not because I want to. beIN Sports and Cycling.TV use Flash for their live streaming so I have it, begrudgingly, installed but only use it via Firefox.
Yeah, most IT sysadmins use it for a multitude of software/hardware we buy. Cisco/VMware (number one networking and virtualization providers, respectively) still sell to this day hardware/software that require flash/java. There's just no getting away from it until they do.
Actually, if you use Safari you won't need Flash to watch streams/VODs anymore, I belive it uses HLS instead(Quicktime stream). I got my rMBP back in december and I thought to myself 'I'm not gonna install Flash. I guess I'll have to use Chrome for Twitch until they get the HTML5 player ready in Q2...'. But I was proven wrong when I went to the front page to sign up and noticed that streams played even though I didn't have Flash!
Only thing is that the resolution'll be on auto and not chanageable, and stream stats data won't function. But I can defantily live with that
Given technology of 2016, there really is no need for developers to continue using Flash. Those that did develop in Flash have had plenty of time convert to something else. So why is it that so many continue to use it? Laziness? Whatever, I don't support Flash and it has not been on my computers (and obviously never on my iPads or iPhones or ATVs) since 2012. In the beginning it was more difficult, but these days, I mostly forget that Flash even existed.
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They have an app for ATV and iOS that obviously does not require Flash. Maybe something to look into.
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What does that say that Cisco/VMware still uses Flash. To it says they just don't care. Hopefully another company will come along and eat them for breakfast. Although to be fair, the Flas is only for the admin tools so as I understand it, it only affect a small group of people with the MOST ACCESS CREATING THE BIGGEST VULNERABILITY.
Updating the Flash Player is a pain in the ass.
I had to go to get.adobe.com, download the .dmg, mount the .dmg, click on “Adobe Flash Player Install Manager” on the mounted .dmg, eject the .dmg, then delete the .dmg.
Are they ever going to make this process simpler?
Sometimes the Adobe Flash update screen pops up automatically; if this was an emergency update, I don’t get why this wasn’t one of those times.
Even more crappy: When you go to https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ *after* updating, it still has the “Install Now” button, like if you had never updated. Why doesn’t it detect your version and change this button to “Your version of Flash Player is up to date!” ?? Total nonsense!
I had to go to get.adobe.com, download the .dmg, mount the .dmg, click on “Adobe Flash Player Install Manager” on the mounted .dmg, eject the .dmg, then delete the .dmg.
Are they ever going to make this process simpler?
Sometimes the Adobe Flash update screen pops up automatically; if this was an emergency update, I don’t get why this wasn’t one of those times.
Even more crappy: When you go to https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ *after* updating, it still has the “Install Now” button, like if you had never updated. Why doesn’t it detect your version and change this button to “Your version of Flash Player is up to date!” ?? Total nonsense!
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I can assure you, the day that no one uses Flash anymore good old Twitch will stop using Flash too. But as long as this garbage is kept alive by plenty of users we are forced to install updates on a "daily" basis. It's 2016, there are much better and more secure alternatives to Flash.
Thanks, @Cuban Missles. I'll definitely look into it. Perhaps this is my excuse to upgrade to ATV 4. And to clarify, it's beIN Sports that has an app for Apple TV?
This is why I haven't had Flash on my MacBook Pro in ages...
I said goodbye to bad rubbish (Flash obvs) ages ago, and haven't had any issues at all!
Enable the developer menu in Safari, and then if there is something that insists on playing in Flash, just change Safari to pretend to be an iPad and see how quickly everything pops un in HTML6!
(This the a great way to trick BBC iPlayer haha)
I said goodbye to bad rubbish (Flash obvs) ages ago, and haven't had any issues at all!
Enable the developer menu in Safari, and then if there is something that insists on playing in Flash, just change Safari to pretend to be an iPad and see how quickly everything pops un in HTML6!
(This the a great way to trick BBC iPlayer haha)
Java and JavaScript are two totally different animals.
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Unfortunately it may be required for some applications. My employer chose to go with Adobe Connect for our screen sharing/collaboration system and no surprise, it requires flash.
How about if Adobe used the found vulnerability to self update Flash with no input from the user.
Just a thought
Exactly why I remove Flash from everything. It can't die soon enough. The only downside, I can't block HTML 5 auto play videos just by not having Flash anymore.
