Open web standards like HTML5 made it possible to embed content directly onto webpages.Įven when it was still useful, it was far from universally loved. Although Flash played a crucial role in the early days of the Internet - it used to be, for example, the standard way YouTube played its videos - it has become obsolete. The writing has been on the wall for a long time.
Adobe has officially killed off Flash Player, the buggy, hated, security vulnerability of a web browser plug-in that was once widely used for viewing rich content like games, videos and other media online.
