Adobe Flash will cease to exist within the next couple of years

This has been a pretty good week for digital security, because not only is Oracle finally killing off its cancerous Java plug-in for web browsers, Encoding.com has reported that Adobe Flash will die its own death within the next couple of years. You know it’s bad when even Adobe itself wants to kill off Flash, but it can’t just pull the rug out from under the websites that still rely on it, which is pretty much the only reason Flash still exists. Fortunately, the good old H.264 codec has come to dominate the Internet, while the newer H.265 and WebM are growing like crazy, and will full replace Flash within the next couple of years.