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Apple Forces Users to Upgrade to Newest Adobe Flash Player to Patch Vulnerabilities

After my last clean Mavericks reinstall a couple weeks ago, I decided to skip installing flash, vlc, and perian.

Feels pretty good. Nice, clean, speedy and neat.
 
coolfactor said:
Are you being sincere or sarcastic? I can't tell, since you already have an image on your profile, so you're a regular forum member?
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I was being sincere. I guess the question I was really getting at was "is there any reason someone wouldn't update their Flash player?"

I was asking if there was a downside to Apple requiring the latest version of flash. Has an update to flash player ever caused compatibility problems with flash based videos and applications? If not, I see no reason not to update it or for Apple to force the user to keep it updated.
 
It’s also good to just block Flash by default in Safari preferences > Security > Website Settings. That way you can enable it for a specific site when you actually need it and it doesn’t nag you as often when you visit a website that prompts the Adobe updater like in this case.
 
Now if only Apple would offer legacy support to older hardware. With good programming, graceful fall back on advanced features and targeted compiles they can do this very well. They have the resources. It would keep hardware out of the zombie hacker hands.
 
furi0usbee said:
Not a great solution because many videos will only play in flash, especially with ads. You'll just get:

This video is unavailable.

Adobe Flash Player or QuickTime is required for video playback.
Get the latest Flash Player
Get the latest version of QuickTime
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Apparently you didn't read the good news.

This honestly for me is the straw that broke the camels back. I have installed a new verison of Flash 3 times this week and I'm tried of it. Anytime I need Flash for putting in annotations on YT or view other Flash content, I'll redirect it to Chrome. I have finally removed Flash from my systems and it feels great.

RIP Flash you resource hog of a plug in. You will not be missed.
 
What is this great ADOBE FLASH PLAYER that everyone speaks of? 😵
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I just uninstalled Flash from my MacBook last week, and there are hardly any differences when browsing the web. One of the exceptions is some online homework, but I just "cheat" by using Chrome when I have to do it.
 
I am so tired of Flash. It seems every week we hear of new vunerabilities with this software. Now whenever I go to a site that requires it, I just move on to another website.

Adobe just needs to let it die!!
 
What is the best way to remove flash, by using Adobe's Flash Unistaller, or going to applications and just dragging to trash?

In either case are there any orphan or hidden files that need to be manually deleted? If so where?

Thanks.
 
What happens if you only use Chrome's built-in Pepper Flash Player and don't have Flash Player installed?
 
The two biggest security threats to any Mac (or PC) user in 2015 continue to be Flash and Java in the browser.

The best course of action is to simply fully remove both of them from your systems and never look back.

If you simply must have one of these, then you best take the time to understand how to protect yourself. I'd recommend using Chrome's built-in Flash, set to click-to-play, and enhanced by using NoScript to whitelist only specific sites.

If you don't believe the folks reporting that you need Flash for very few sites, just consider that an iPad doesn't have Flash and any website worth looking at works perfectly fine on my iPad.
 
a0me said:
What happens if you only use Chrome's built-in Pepper Flash Player and don't have Flash Player installed?
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A chrome update is released and flash gets fixed. This is how I use flash, when I see missing plugin I kick it over to chrome and viola! flash. Chrome is ok on the mac now. it's 64 bit and is compatible with java. I have Java 8 installed and it works with both browsers.

Brian
 
BillyBobBongo said:
This is a great tip! 🙂
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I thought so too till I tried it. Uninstalled Flash, downloaded Chrome but I was unable to play flash on espncricinfo.com had to reinstall Flash. I also got rid of Chrome when I saw that I couldn't use it without going through a bunch of Google hoops, then I remembered why I am getting rid of Google from my life.
 
JUST die, Flash Player, ....... just die already!!! This is it!! I'm gonna remove it. Every freaking week, an update, amazing.
 
When I got my Air, I wiped the disk and clean installed Yosemite without installing Java / Flash. For personal use, I haven't had a need for any of these.
Unfortunately for work, there are some departments that use Flash, and our switches and Dell remote cards do need Java.

I personally think Satan himself created Java and Flash! 😀
 
ButteryScrollin said:
First Apple force me to update to iOS 8, then Yosemite, now they are forcing me to upgrade to the latest Flash! when will it stop?
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Don't use flash at all, quite easy! Apple is jumping in here as Adobe is not getting things sorted out as they should.

Nobody forces you to do anything by the way, especially not to use Yosemite. If you don't want to use the extra features, stay with Mavericks which is still fully supported. If not, don't complain 😕
 
ThunderSkunk said:
After my last clean Mavericks reinstall a couple weeks ago, I decided to skip installing flash, vlc, and perian.

Feels pretty good. Nice, clean, speedy and neat.
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Flash and Perian I can see, but VLC? Sometimes you need it to play video formats that OS X can't play, like MKV.

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YouTube finalizing HTML5 support was the nail in the coffin for Flash for me. I removed it from both my machines.

When I come across a website that won't play video without flash, I casually submit a complaint that the site requires insecure software and that they should really move into the 2010s.

Once they see enough users doing the same thing, they'll stop requiring Flash. It takes all of us, and the number of people saying "I removed flash" is encouraging.
 
When Google/Adobe stopped supporting Flash on Android, I thought that would herald its end on the desktop too. Here we are years later and the horribly optimized security risk that is Flash is somehow still hanging on, no thanks to near daily updates.

I hate Flash as much as everyone, but I really think that Apple needs to take a cue from Google and Microsoft and embed the plugin in the browser so that it is automatically updated without any interaction from the user. Chrome has its own version of Flash, and IE in Windows 8 also manages Flash updates for the user. It's not Apple's fault that it sucks so bad, but they could opt to make it easier on the user.
 
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