Certain sites I use pop up a window that says flash player will not be supported anymore, which i guess is the formal way of it saying they’re discontinuing it? I’ve always just hit allow permission to use flash player on sites that require it. What does it mean once they stop supporting flash player? Will I be able to use those sites still? Are they replacing flash player with some other program? Or is that link forever broken? I don’t understand computers very well, so very dumbed down explanations of whats happening ,and what WILL happen, is much appreciated.
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Flash is a technology built into browsers (like chrome) that makes it easier for people to make interactive content like videos, games, and the like. Since it was widely available and easy to pick up, a lot of people started using it for everything.
The problem is, Flash is full of bugs and security flaws, so Apple, Google, and the other big web companies have been trying to get rid of it. At first, they did that with soft deadlines and requiring the user to give specific permission for Flash to run each time. However, recently there has been a push to kill off Flash once and for all, meaning that once we reach that deadline at the end of the year, Flash won’t work in Google Chrome at all.
If you still need to use Flash, there will be some browsers that still support it. I don’t remember which ones do, but Google it and you will find some that will still run Flash.
Whether a website decides to update their stuff from Flash to something more modern depends on the website.
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