{"id":7868,"date":"2020-12-01T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T19:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2020-12-01T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:19:49","slug":"flash-is-dead-uninstall-flash-player-to-keep-your-mac-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/flash-is-dead-uninstall-flash-player-to-keep-your-mac-secure\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Is Dead\u2014Uninstall Flash Player to Keep Your Mac Secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2017, Adobe announced that it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/end-of-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stop distributing and updating Flash Player<\/a> on December 31st, 2020. Web standards like HTML5 provide a viable alternative to Flash content, and organizations that relied on Flash have had three years to replace it. Because Adobe will no longer be addressing security vulnerabilities in Flash with updates, Flash Player now prompts users to uninstall. We strongly recommend doing so\u2014just click the Uninstall button if you get this alert. If you don\u2019t, a Flash Player Install Manager app in your Utilities folder should be able to remove Flash Player as well. Adobe also provides <a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/flash-player\/kb\/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">instructions to uninstall manually<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8176\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/flash-is-dead-uninstall-flash-player-to-keep-your-mac-secure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image based on an original by<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@anakin1814?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Gary Meulemans<\/a> on<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/gravestone?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Unsplash<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2017, Adobe announced that it would stop distributing and updating Flash Player on December 31st, 2020. Web standards like HTML5 provide a viable alternative to Flash content, and organizations that relied on Flash have had three years to replace it. Because Adobe will no longer be addressing security vulnerabilities in Flash with updates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,25,112,185,104],"tags":[126,3381,95],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-security","tag-apple-consulting-ct","tag-flash","tag-mac-support-ct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7884,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions\/7884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}