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by InitialBP 1372 days ago
It's worth noting that there was a lot of pressure from the major browsers to deprecate flash due to security issues throughout the years. Flash produced a lot of great media but in the end it wasn't built with security in mind, and security is much more important today than it was 10 years ago. I don't know what it would take to revamp and then port flash over to some other platform, but I imagine that they'd be better off to just build a new system from scratch and aspire to capture a bit of that old flash magic.

List of CVEs for flash player - lots of 10s in there. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/p...