Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10

Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:45PM (#25587156)

This has been the case since Google Chrome. If you tolerated Chrome and it's "evergreen browser" behavior, you supported the process that eventually became software developers' assumption that they should update themselves without permission on their schedules, and retire and remove features with regularity.

In 2020, we no longer have a right to act surprised about this, because we should've done something to fight it a long time ago.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by EvanAnderson on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:49PM (#25587188)

I broke that functionality in Chrome so I could control when it updated. I didn't accept it. I won't accept it. I would encourage others not to accept it.

I will abandon platforms that take away my control. That's not tenable for a lot of people. There's just a lot of "cool stuff" that I don't get to use if there isn't a Free solution. I deal with it. I hate it, but I deal with it.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by JadeNB on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:50PM (#25588246)

> I broke that functionality in Chrome so I could control when it updated. I didn't accept it. I won't accept it. I would encourage others not to accept it.

> I will abandon platforms that take away my control.

If you are still using Google Chrome, then it sounds like you will work to avoid the limitations of platforms that take away your control, which is very different from avoiding them.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by EvanAnderson on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:27PM (#25589603)

I did not accept Chrome's "evergreen" functionality-- I didn't say that I don't use Chrome.

I continue to use various hobbled Chrome versions when circumstances dictate. I use Firefox when I can.

I wish I didn't need Chrome from time to time. If my underlying OS prevents me from hobbling Chrome I'll ultimately have to abandon Chrome (and probably the OS).

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by tpxl on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:37AM (#25591135)

> If you tolerated Chrome and it's "evergreen browser" behavior, you supported the process

This meme needs to die. If all the choices are bad and you choose the least bad, you don't support it.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by userbinator on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:38PM (#25587663)

That's why I don't use Chrome, nor do I endorse others doing so (look at some of my other comments, if you want to know what I think of Google and its effective monopoly...)

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by RandallBrown on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:56PM (#25587270)

This is also how websites work.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by EvanAnderson on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:09PM (#25587405)

Which is a good reason to eschew software that's delivered via third-party servers versus running on your hardware.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by josefx on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:32PM (#25587623)

Weird, I have some saved copies of sites that ceased to exist years ago. The backups are still where I left them and I can open without issues. Apparently Microsoft failed to wipe my backups.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by throwaway201103 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:09PM (#25587408)

Yes but I don't "own" a website. It's not reasonable for me to expect websites to keep working the way they always have.

For SaaS of course, that's something to be aware of. Since I don't have the hardware and software under my control, I have no say in when the supplier stops providing it. Many people have learned this the hard way with Google services, just as an example (there are many others, not picking on Goggle in particular here).

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