Flash Is Finally Dead! Uninstall Flash Player to Keep Your Mac Secure

 

In July 2017, Adobe announced that it would stop distributing and updating Flash Player on December 31st, 2020. Web standards like HTML5 provide a viable alternative to Flash content, and organizations that relied on Flash have had three years to replace it.

Because Adobe will no longer be addressing security vulnerabilities in Flash with updates, Flash Player now prompts users to uninstall. We strongly recommend doing so—just click the Uninstall button if you get this alert. If you don’t, a Flash Player Install Manager app in your Utilities folder should be able to remove Flash Player as well. Adobe also provides instructions to uninstall manually.

 

(Featured image based on an original by Gary Meulemans on Unsplash)

A few other times we’ve celebrated dead things.

• Experience the Web Without Flash.
• Preparing for Leopard: Helvetica is Dead.
• Remove Photoshop CS3 Beta before installing CS3.
• Uninstalling Acrobat DC
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