Comment by sippingabonedry
2 hours ago
A great way to convince you you've always been wrong:
Step 1: Gain browser monopoly
Step 2: Generate fake security scare
Step 3: Gaslight everyone that only way to mitigate is to get rid of it completely like Flash.
Step 3a (corollary): There isn't anyone available that can fix the bugs because we spent all resources on UI/UX experimentation
Thank you for reminding me that we don't have Flash anymore. I'm counting blessings I forgot I had.
Flash went away because Steve Jobs made an impassioned plea to find a better way and follow their humble browser which only had single digit percentages of marketshare at the time.
html5 canvas and javascript advancements made flash obsolete, reminder that you used to be able to run java in the browser!