Although it seems like yesterday, at least for the most veteran, Flash technology has been with us for about 20 years, a technology that came to allow us to view videos on web pages, run applications and enjoy games. Fortunately, technology has been advancing and has developed new protocols that are much more flexible, fast and secure.
HTML 5 came a few years ago to stay and become the ideal replacement for Flash, a technology that in recent years had experienced a large number of security problems and that Adobe, creator of this software, did not know or wanted to stop in time and completely ignored it.
Google has begun to show through its Chrome browser, a reminder about the date on which will stop offering flash support. To this day, we can still visit web pages that implement this technology, but it does not run automatically, but we have to be the users who give the go-ahead.
According to Google, 3 years ago, 80% of Chrome users visited a web page with Flash every day, a percentage that has dropped to 17% today. This trend reveals that websites are migrating to open web technologies, such as HTML5, technologies that are faster and resource consuming, as well as being much more secure.
In addition, this new technology works on both mobile devices and desktop computers, so we can visit any website without having to install any add-ons from any device. Chrome will continue to support Flash technology until the end of 2020, at which time it will be impossible to reproduce content of this typeas no prompt will be displayed to play the content as it is currently.