Bleeping Computer:
The percentage of daily Chrome users who’ve loaded at least one page containing Flash content per day has gone down from around 80% in 2014 to under 8% in early 2018.
These statistics on Flash’s declining numbers were shared with the public by Parisa Tabriz, Director of Engineering at Google, during a keynote speech at Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) held in San Diego last week.
That’s a precipitous dropoff, all in less than 4 years.
Last summer, Adobe announced the official end-of-life for Flash:
In collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.
So this dropoff is not a big surprise, more a sign that people are moving their content in the right direction.
8% still too much.
Overdue.
Ding dong, the witch is dead…
Some guy, I can’t recall his name, said many years ago that Flash was dead. The world howled in contentious disagreement with him.
Oh, i think I recall his name now, it was Steve Jibs or Jobes or something. What does it matter, I’m sure he was an inconsequential person anyway!
No kidding, and some very prominent sites still require it. You can’t watch a basketball game on TNT’s site without it, for example. So frustrating.