Flash

Flash domains
URL	Various
Status	Endangered (Plugin is discontinued on 2020-12-31, browsers will begin actively blocking use of it on 2021-01-01)
Archiving status	Saved!
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	flashdomains-grab
Project tracker	flashdomains
IRC channel	#flashbang (on hackint)
Data[how to use]	Collection of Flash website WARCs

Adobe has announced that it intends to end of life the multimedia plugin and player called "Flash" at the end of 2020. In doing so, it will backstab decades of created content.

This working page is meant to gather information on this situation and create possibilities for prolonging Flash, even as an open-source player of content already created.

Projects

• Data Horde's Flash Player Emergency Kit

• Flashpoint are collecting Flash games, and have written a standalone web server you run locally to play the games, they respect takedown requests from content owners.

Various Articles and Sources

• Adobe Finally Kills Flash Dead, Wired Magazine, July 2017
• Adobe Will Finally Kill Flash in 2020, The Verge, July 2017