Google To Block Flash On Chrome By End Of Year

Another sign that Adobe Flash is dying a slow death is the plan that Google is planning to block Flash by default in all but a handful of sites by the end of year. Google will maintain support in the short-term for the top 10 domains using the player, including YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitch and Amazon. But you can expect that this list will shrink over time.

Clearly, it is becoming more and more clear that Flash is doomed. Thus you might want to consider if you really need to run it at all on your computer.

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Chrome 55 Rolling Out… And Flash Is Doomed As A Result | The IT Nerd Says:
December 2, 2016 at 9:20 am

[…] If you’re a user of Google Chrome, expect version 55 of the browser to be hitting your computer soon. They key feature that you should be aware of is the fact that it defaults to HTML5 rather than using the ultra insecure Adobe Flash plugin. This shouldn’t come as a shock as Google did say that they had plans to do this earlier this year. […]

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