Alex Stamos is the company's Chief Security Office, CSO Facebook, and in a message recently published on the messaging network Twitter he asked the company Adobe to announce a date when it will stop providing support for the plugin flash.
Lately, more and more people are asking to give it up flash because of the many security problems that this platform has, but those from Adobe stubbornly refuse to give up the technology that Steve Jobs managed to make forgotten for mobile terminals.
Steve Jobs started in 2010 to promote the replacement of flash with HTML 5 and refused to use Adobe technology in iDevices saying that it is the main reason why Macs have performance problems, and in 2015 flash is used very rarely on mobile platforms.
Flash has started to be avoided by so many people that most websites are based on HTML 5 or various other technologies, and websites like YouTube or Vimeo rely mainly on HTML 5 to play video content for users.
Of course, flash is still used by many websites, mainly those for online streaming, but considering the recent "wave" of criticism, maybe Adobe will finally understand that its platform must be replaced by something better.
With people like Facebook's CSO supporting the abandonment of flash, surely other big companies will have similar ideas and abandon Adobe's platform, but it will be quite some time before flash will completely disappear from our lives.
