Why is this piece of shit still being used?

backwards compatibility for old people and shit hardware

Legacy. "If it ain't broke, I ain't gonna pay to redo it in a new format."

If you want to see less Flash in the world, go find every use of it out there and recode the implementation in HTML5 and/or whatever else. Then send it to the host. Maybe they'll take you up on your free work.

>>61500374
It literally kicks up my 2017 laptop fans every time it's enabled.

>>61500389
Steve Jobs killed flash a long time ago.

https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

>>61500360
I've been writing python scripts to scrape data from broker's websites REST API that their Javascript uses, but one of these brokers still uses flash is there an easy way to figure out something similar to how their JS calls an API to get JSON, wondering how flash gets the data.

>>61500449
Disassemble the flash files ( typically .swf).

>>61500374
this discounts the fact that lots of websites use it

number 1 security problem on the internet imho

I've never seen a flash thing since 2013.

>>61500449
If the swf files can't be disassembled, consider forcing the app to go through a logging proxy.

>>61500483
porn more

>>61500360
Super Deep Throat exists.

>>61500360
PORN

>>61500471
>>61500533
Thanks guys I didn't think to even try to disassemble the swf. Now I got the API's url but there is no documentation on it and I tried making a direct request but the values that come back are meaningless so I guess somewhere in the swf code these values get decoded or something.

I honest to god miss the peak of flash because there was a lot of games and whatnot that was a lot of fun.
And the tools out there to do the same thing in HTML5 is not even vaguely as easy to get the same results.
Flash gave kids and the every man a way to make animations, games, etc without the a steap incline in learning, so becaues of that you saw a ton of shit get made you wouldn't have otherwise.

I'm rather surprised that there isn't a proper replacement for flash, not in the sense of a plugin, but a tool to author the same shit in HTML5+Canvas. I thought Adobe was suppose to be working on a thing that would output flash to HTML5, but that seems to have never happened.

>>61500808
Flash was fucking cancer. At least the timeline.

I did like Actionscript tho.

>>61500360
Flash is still used for games and occasionally use shockwave for early 00s vidya.

>>61500872
Eh, I had flash as prompt to activate since around 2004 or so (when did firefox 1.4 come out?). So it never bothered me much. Only ran what I wanted to run.

>>61500360
IIRC, it was supposed to die this yeat, but...

>>61500916
Just for linux

>>61500413
Yes, same problem. One of our legacy applications at work has its web log/monitor as a flash web page. I run 2 1440p monitors all day with the fan barely audible. As soon as that web page opens, though...

>>61500360

Is it?

>>61500533
Wireshark this bitch at the end it's gonna be a simple REST api.

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how fast can you solve the autism cube, /g/?

is it? i haven't used it for 8 years now

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>>61500434
>Steve Jobs vs Flash
October 5 2011 : Flash 1, Steve Jobs 0.

For Newgrounds and /f/

>>61500360
baby's first 2D game engine

>>61500360 Because you people still couldn't get a major campaign for abolishment of software such as this one going. Citizens need to get informed, governments need to engage, companies need to have interests and knowledge in best practices.
Get going!

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>>61500360
Porn games

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>>61500434
LMAO, Jobs hated Flash because it was a major threat to his walled garden app store, plus iGarbage couldn't run it without turning into a fire hazard.

>>61500360
because they haven't ported Gemcraft Labyrinth to HTML5 yet as far as i know.

>>61506072
Try self-awareness before yammering about walled gardens, Adobe shill. I'll blow your mind.

>>61508877
>I'll blow your mind.

More like blow your boyfriend's cock. Flash being closed source has nothing to do with this. The problem is that it enables bypassing Jobs' shit-ass app store tyranny.

>>61500374
isn't html5 faster for all types of pcs or just newer gen?

>>61500360
It's useful for testing vrms

>>61503331
You weren't using flash in 2009?

Heavily doubt that. It was still huge back then.

>>61511198

Man html5 made my i5 sandybridge shit itself all the time. It's a god damn meme.

>>61500360
Like DirectX, entire generations of programmers were brought up on it, so it's going to die very slowly as people transition out.

It'll still be supported though, because management paid for that website and they're not going to pay for it again.