Hating flash is like hating paper because most of what is written on paper is advertising and lies. Oceans of wonderful content were made with or had their origins in flash. If you care about the good stuff, you might look up Bluemaxima's Flashpoint.
People hate flash not because of the content but because it causes a lot of problems. At one point, Flash was responsible for over 80% of all browser crashes.
Not to mention dealing with Adobe. Adobe has the most attention whoring software I've ever seen. "Look at me! Flash needs an update! Hey, I'm down here, look update me!" Which includes "Hey, I know it's the same PDF you made three years ago and the format doesn't change all that rapidly, but I really think you need to update your PDF reader...."
Not to mention they immediately deprecated old versions. I ran a K1000 system for my last company, there were seriously times I checked in the morning to see if there was a new version of Flash, there wasn't by lunch time my users were bitching they were getting messages their version of Flash was out of date and wouldn't work on a site. Sure enough, a new version came out between 9:00 and lunch and they already had expired the previous one.
I'm glad to see Flash go just so I don't have to deal with Adobe.
You do need to update your PDF reader, because PDF does too much. If it only did things necessary for displaying content and maybe at most validating form input, it wouldn't be such a security nightmare.
For about 99.9% of PDF's, you can use something like SumatraPDF because those files don't use any of those features, and basically stick to what PDF was originally created for. It's really a very small minority where you actually need to use Adobe Reader.
To be fair, you actually do need to update Flash and Reader. The reason is because like with Java, they were some of the most commonly and severely exploited pieces of software back when they were in common use. Thankfully Java isn't used much on the web anymore, Flash is finally starting to die, and Reader is starting to become less relevant due to built-in PDF viewing in browsers (and Windows defaults to opening PDFs in Edge, so the most common OS too).
The other comment here also nails it, Reader allow
Flash was used often in advertisements. Pretty much any animation / video banner ad was flash. While it would certainly crash browsers, it was WONDERFULLY easy to block. Just disable flash for all sites except your favorites, and these stupid distracting, bandwidth-sucking ads would not even be downloaded or processed. That was so much better than current HTML5 video ads which, thanks to browsers and their (lack of) blocking features, are pretty difficult to block. You have to rely on extensions which rarel
The first Flash ad I ever saw was on Slashdot, and it was for Splunk software. Before Flash click-to-play extensions were common, I would add to my hosts file any domain name involved in serving a Flash ad.
Er what? Not many hated Flash because Flash was a platform for video and animations. They hated Flash specifically because of performance, security, stability, and battery issues in the case of mobile. I didn’t have a great computer when Flash was at its peak, and it would make it slow and lethargic. I was lucky that when it crashed that it would only crash my browser; sometimes it would take the OS with it. At the time I didn’t have the money to build a high end gaming machine just to play Flas
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Hating flash is like hating paper because most of what is written on paper is advertising and lies. Oceans of wonderful content were made with or had their origins in flash. If you care about the good stuff, you might look up Bluemaxima's Flashpoint.
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Look at my Horse, my horse is amazing is among my favorite flash content. Mostly because I can use it to drive my wife up a wall.
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https://atticusinjapan.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/raw-horse-meatice-cream/
Those wacky Japanese, Cat Girls, Hentai, Tentacle Porn, Raw Horse Flesh Ice Cream....
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Raisins!
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Also the security problems were no different and had the same solutions as a million other scripting engines still in use today.
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Not to mention dealing with Adobe. Adobe has the most attention whoring software I've ever seen. "Look at me! Flash needs an update! Hey, I'm down here, look update me!" Which includes "Hey, I know it's the same PDF you made three years ago and the format doesn't change all that rapidly, but I really think you need to update your PDF reader...."
Not to mention they immediately deprecated old versions. I ran a K1000 system for my last company, there were seriously times I checked in the morning to see if there was a new version of Flash, there wasn't by lunch time my users were bitching they were getting messages their version of Flash was out of date and wouldn't work on a site. Sure enough, a new version came out between 9:00 and lunch and they already had expired the previous one.
I'm glad to see Flash go just so I don't have to deal with Adobe.
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You do need to update your PDF reader, because PDF does too much. If it only did things necessary for displaying content and maybe at most validating form input, it wouldn't be such a security nightmare.
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For about 99.9% of PDF's, you can use something like SumatraPDF because those files don't use any of those features, and basically stick to what PDF was originally created for. It's really a very small minority where you actually need to use Adobe Reader.
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The other comment here also nails it, Reader allow
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Flash was used often in advertisements. Pretty much any animation / video banner ad was flash. While it would certainly crash browsers, it was WONDERFULLY easy to block. Just disable flash for all sites except your favorites, and these stupid distracting, bandwidth-sucking ads would not even be downloaded or processed. That was so much better than current HTML5 video ads which, thanks to browsers and their (lack of) blocking features, are pretty difficult to block. You have to rely on extensions which rarel
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Extensions work really well, and don't require manual updating.
I simply do not see ads. Perhaps you're using shit extensions, instead of uBlock Origin?
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I used hosts to block Flash ads on /. (Score:2)
The first Flash ad I ever saw was on Slashdot, and it was for Splunk software. Before Flash click-to-play extensions were common, I would add to my hosts file any domain name involved in serving a Flash ad.
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