https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
--Steve Jobs, "Thoughts on Flash," 2010
--Steve Jobs, "Thoughts on Flash," 2010
The annoying thing is that with the rise of the open web, fingerprinting has become significantly easier.
Private browsing or a VPN doesn't make you anonymous because your web browser is fingerprint-able because of the peculiarities of the hardware its running on.
That not to mention things like Google Chrome for Android that puts your phone model and software build number in the user agent. That puts you in a very small population especially with carrier customised software versions.
Combine that with even the basics of fingerprinting, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting) then you are known.
The difficulty of avoiding fingerprinting multiplies exponentially depending upon how paranoid you are (or need to be). Keeping Google from knowing (passively) who you are is one level. Keeping the oppressive governmental regime you’re exposing the corruption of that has a dedicated secret police force actively attempting to track you by name is completely a different one.
Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc."
oh the irony on this :D