Adobe Flash technology has for years been an inseparable companion to our browsing sessions, and indeed this Adobe standard was key to the birth and development of YouTube and also to a browser game industry that conquered millions of gamers.
In recent years, the relevance of Flash has decreased significantly, and its own creators have been distancing themselves from a platform that already has an expiration date. Those responsible for Adobe in fact announced long ago that in 2020 they would stop distributing and updating Flash Player.
In the official statement, web developers are encouraged to migrate any Flash content to open standards, and point out how they are working with various technology partners (Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, each with its corresponding post about it) to deal with that transition.
Technology was key to all kinds of services based on web technologies in the past decade, but the arrival of the iPhone truncated its path. Steve Jobs’ decision to ban its use on iPhones and iPads set a key precedent for a standard to which increasingly versatile alternatives soon began to emerge.
What about companies that use Adobe flash?
Large technology companies have talked about how they will face that future and these months prior to the total disappearance of Flash, and although there are obviously many other companies and services that continue to use Flash, the roadmap of these giants will probably mark the progress for the rest.
These websites are less and less, Chrome estimates that 8% of the entire network continues to use this technology, but in that percentage there are still widely used services that either have not wanted or have not been able to leave that ‘software’. Above all, we find websites related to multimedia playback, editing or playing video games that, due to the complexity of their development, have not been able to move to other systems.
If you use any of these websites you should know that until the end of 2020 you will not have to look for another alternative. But, yes, every time you will have to fight more with the browser to allow you to use them. Today the veto comes by default and you must go to Settings> Advanced settings> Website settings> enable Ask before> and accept, on the site, to load its Flash version but of course, is not an easy task.
