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Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash

Posted by samzenpus on from the burn-it-with-fire dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook's new chief security officer, Alex Stamos, has stated publicly that he wants to see Adobe end Flash. This weekend Stamos tweeted: "It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day. Even if 18 months from now, one set date is the only way to disentangle the dependencies and upgrade the whole ecosystem at once."

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  1. Re: How about 2015 July 15 0000UTC? by afidel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hell, VMware just released vsphere 6 a few months ago and it requires flash, it will be under support until 2020/2022 .

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  2. Not going to happen any time soon... by David_Hart · · Score: 4, Informative

    Too many internet pages rely on Flash for video and advertisements... and,as much as we hate them, advertisements means money...

    I'm not saying that progress isn't being made. Youtube dropped Flash this year and is now using HTML5 as the default for video, but that doesn't fix legacy videos.
    http://www.theverge.com/2015/1...

    My thought is that Flash will be around for another 3 to 5 years. The quoted "18 months" is just wishful thinking....

  3. cap by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    A lot of the content (like Homestar Runner and Weebl's Stuff) is also available via their official YouTube channels. You lose all the interactivity, though.

    Rendering the video to pixels and compressing it with H.264 or VP8 bloats files by a factor of ten in my tests. The era of dial-up is mostly over, but the era of monthly quotas and pay-per-bit last miles is still very much with us.