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- Jan 1, 202090% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
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- Jan 2, 202090% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Adobe Will Kill off Flash by 2020
- Adobe announced on 25 July 2017 that it will end-of-life Flash: 'we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020'[1][2][3]
- The plan was made with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla; Adobe will keep supplying security patches and compatibility until then and may move more aggressively against unlicensed versions in some regions[2][3]
- Per the article, Microsoft would pull support by 2019, Google would phase it out over the next few years with no declared timeline, Mozilla would look to abandon Flash around 2020, and Apple is on board for 2020[1]
- Reasons: maturing open standards (HTML5, canvas, WebGL, WebAssembly), plus Flash's security and battery-drain problems[1][3]
- Google's Anthony Laforge said Chrome desktop users visiting Flash sites fell from over 80% to 17% in three years[2]
- The article worries that rich web content will become inaccessible after 2020 unless archived or rebuilt[1]
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- [1]90%interestingengineering.com/adobe-kill-off-flash-2020interestingengineering.com· Posted Aug 1, 2017· Starts Jan 1, 2020 ✓· Ends Jan 2, 2020 ✓· 34% of score
Happened as dated, per interestingengineering.com: "…ulled the plug on the technology. Adobe[3] announced, “We will stop updating an … lready pulled the plu…"
- [2]85%Adobe's Flash end of life scheduled, finally, for 2020techtarget.com· Published Jul 28, 2017· 33% of score
TechTarget's own headline and 28 July 2017 publish date - three days after Adobe's[3] announcement - independently report Flash's end-of-life being scheduled for 2020, matching the pin's stored January 2020 date, though the page itself could not be fetched directly.
- [3]97%Flash & the Future of Interactive Contentblog.adobe.com· Published Jul 25, 2017· 33% of score
Adobe's own blog post, published 25 July 2017 under the title 'Flash & the Future of Interactive Content,' is the original announcement that seeded the pin's claim of Flash being discontinued by the end of 2020, though the page itself could not be fetched directly to quote its wording.
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