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Tangurena2today at 12:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Flash ended up getting blocked/banned by all browsers because it turned into a giant gaping security hole.

> By January 2021, all major browsers were blocking all Flash content unconditionally.

It looks like we-the-users need to be blocking any and every one of these parasites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash


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Narishmatoday at 1:45 PM

I have a feeling they may have pushed for that more because it was controlled by a third party, and not the browser developers themselves.