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Why does Chrome keep yammering at me about Flash Player?

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October 02, 2019, 07:31 PM
parabellum
Why does Chrome keep yammering at me about Flash Player?
I don't freaking CARE that Flash will no longer be supported after December, 2020. That's more than a year away! Leave me alone!

I don't use Chrome for the most part. I use Firefox, but sometimes accidentally open Chrome. Just get over it already! Hey, Google- here's an idea- start warning Chrome users about this NEXT FREAKING YEAR!!
October 02, 2019, 07:38 PM
Angus the Kid
Flash should have died many, many years ago.


"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
October 02, 2019, 09:24 PM
Pipe Smoker
^^^^^^^^
Some would say that Flash did die many, many years ago, but its zombie incarnation continues to molest the living.


Serious about crackers.
October 03, 2019, 01:41 AM
konata88
Why does the message target end users? We don’t have any control over it. It should be transparent to us. The website developers need to adjust for lack of flash.

Is there some reason for google to be telling us?



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October 03, 2019, 02:05 AM
f2
The reminders stop after a while.
October 03, 2019, 06:41 AM
ensigmatic
quote:
Originally posted by konata88:
Why does the message target end users?

Because Flash is, unfortunately, used for a lot more than just displaying web content. If that's all of which it had ever been capable, perhaps it wouldn't have been the most exploitable, and exploited, pieces of software the world has ever seen.


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October 03, 2019, 08:09 AM
zoom6zoom
I regualarly visit one site that requires Flash. With the latest Firefox update version 69, you can no nonger tell the browser to "allow and remember" that Flash is authorized for that site. Now I have to click on "allow" every damn time I load the page.



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