Amazon ends flash adverts due to vulnerabilities, blocking

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Adobe's Flash has earned a reputation for insecurity through a litany of vulnerabilities through the years since its inception in the late 1990s. But it hasn't made many friends among users, either, who are increasingly either turned off by bandwidth-sucking video advertisements, or are nervous that running Flash adverts leaves your machine open to all sorts of vulnerabilities.

Amazon.com is now coming around to that point of view as well. Since so many users either block or are fearful of flash adverts, the marketing juggernaut has decided to henceforth refuse to use them. Amazon is only one of many Internet sites, but it's a high profile one, and their refusal of Flash adverts may finally tip the market in a direction it should've headed long ago. Could this be the end of Adobe Flash?
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Hello GIF/HTML5 adverts (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-08-26 13:06 (#JGNG)

They've got to distract you to capture your eyeball somehow. This isn't a win by any means. :-(

Re: Hello GIF/HTML5 adverts (Score: 1)

by wootery@pipedot.org on 2015-08-26 14:53 (#JH0Z)

It certainly is a win, from a security perspective.

"Could this be the end of Adobe Flash?" (Score: 1)

by wootery@pipedot.org on 2015-08-26 14:54 (#JH10)

Could this be the end of Adobe Flash?
Oh come on. Flash is slowly dying. There will be no one event which marks its end.