Regarding Adobe’s Flash for web browsers?
The key issues were that it was no longer useful for new content, having been replaced by modern, open, standards, and the nature of the plugin itself made it constantly prone to security issues. Adobe decided it wasn’t worth fixing anymore and told users it would be discontinued in a few years (2020)
It was still functional when it was turned off.
The problem was that there are now other, better methods of accomplishing the same functions, while the older systems used in flash were less efficient, and more open to security problems.
While it broke a few websites, in reality for a large percentage of the internet turning off flash had no effect at all – they had already migrated over to newer alternatives for practical reasons anyway.
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