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I haven't had the Adobe Flash plugin installed for several years now. I can't even remember the last time I needed to use Chrome for Flash support.

My kids are in college and I don't think they've needed Flash even for the variety of archaic sites they have to deal with.

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The online digital textbooks and homework, Cengage’s MindTap, requires flash for their statistics portion. Flash is also used for their digital textbook.

I’ll assume this carries over for any type of assignment page that requires input from the user.

WebAssign dropped Flash (at least for Chemistry) last year, including the fancy organic molecule input system. I haven’t seen Flash in any of the online courses I’ve taken since 2016 or so (and some of those sites are pretty archaic).

I can't even remember the last time I needed touse Chrome for Flash support.

My company's spam filter service requires Flash if you're on desktop. There's a mobile version that's non-Flash, but it's feature limited.

The web site of one of the larger pre-FAANG online advertising companies is all Flash. You can't even change your password without it.

I wonder what that company's strategy is for not being left behind.

Generally in large old companies? 'blindfolds' then 'anger' and 'lets buy something off the shelf'

My company forked Firefox and man in the middled an entire fleet of edge kiosks so they could run Flash apps over TLS 1.0 on Firefox 17 in 2018. True story

It’s uncanny how closely enterprise attitudes to software upgrades mimic the Kübler-Ross five stage model of grief.

What’s a “spam filter service” and why does it need flash to function?

A thing that holds incoming emails it thinks are spam and provides a web UI (usually) allowing you to review and release messages to your actual inbox.

Isn't that typically handled in the same interface as your regular inbox? Or is this some enterprisey service that forces you to go to their website to review it?

Its an enterprisey service that forces you to go to their website to review it.

There are bunch of older enterprise devices that require flash, from SAN’s to switches

Literally the only thing I've had to use it for in the past 3 years is the webcam stream for the kennel I board my dog at. And I'm pretty sure they threw their website together in Dreamweaver and have barely touched it since before Obama was President.

I tend to run into it with weird places where you might also see the java web start stuff. Like banks and credit card companies.

Yeah, Citi's web app for managing virtual credit card numbers still uses Flash. That's the only reason I still need Flash. I haven't seen any indication that they're working on a replacement

That's the exact one I was thinking of. Citi Double Cash?

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