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    Remove Flash from your PC now

    Dec 02, 2020 4 minutes

    Plagued by a series of security flaws over the past few years, Adobe Flash is finally being put out of its misery on 31 December. That’s hardly breaking news - web browsers have been popping up notifications about the end of Flash for a few months now (see screenshot below). But what exactly is Flash? And what will its demise mean for you?

    Originally created by a company called FutureWave, then bought by Macromedia in 1996, Shockwave Flash (as it was called then) was a technology that provided a platform for animations, videos, games and apps. It was quickly adopted by web developers as a

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