Flash is on his deathbed

WEB STANDARDS On February 9, 2016, Google published a blog post in which the company announced that it will no longer accept Flash advertising banners from June 30, 2016. Flash banners will no longer be displayed from January 2017. Video advertising based on Flash is not yet affected.

Quo vadis Adobe Flash Player? Google is turning its back on the technology. It is quite possible that videos will no longer be able to be played with Flash in the future. The Adobe Flash Player, once a pioneer for moving images on the Internet, is about to be retired. Google's announcement heralds the end of Flash. Adobe had already announced to its customers at the end of November 2015 that the company would support HTML5 in future. Adobe plans to launch its own program for HTML5 at the beginning of 2016. Facebook announced in December that videos on the social media platform will be played without Flash, but also with HTML5.Unloved Flash PlayerThe Flash Player has been criticized for years, as security flaws have been uncovered time and again. Another disadvantage of the program: it requires a lot of server performance, which makes it increasingly unattractive for companies to rely on Flash, as Spiegel writes in its article on the subject, the process of replacing Flash Player at Spiegel-Online is already well advanced.