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Adobe Flash Player End of Life Reminder

This was previously announced  in July 2017 that Adobe would stop supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 (“EOL Date”). In addition, to help secure users' systems, Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player, and this has taken effect since January 12, 2021. Since Adobe no longer supports Flash Player, Adobe strongly recommends that all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems. Some users may continue to see reminders from Adobe to uninstall Flash Player from their system.  For more details on how to uninstall Flash Player see below: Click “Uninstall” when prompted by Adobe, or follow these manual uninstall instructions for Windows and Mac users. For more information on the Adobe Flash Player End of Life visit: https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
Frequently Asked Questions From Adobe Flash Player's website:
What is the difference between Adobe Animate and Adobe Flash Player software?
Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) is an application for developing rich content, user interfaces, and web applications. Adobe Flash Player is a multiplatform client runtime. Web users must download and install Flash Player to view and interact with SWF content.
What is the difference between Adobe AIR and Flash Player?
The two Adobe Flash Platform runtimes are Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Flash Player is a highly expressive cross-platform runtime that works consistently across browsers. Flash Player delivers innovation within the browser, while AIR, a superset of Flash Player, enables the delivery of standalone applications that run outside the browser. Together, they provide a consistent runtime for delivering content that can easily move between the browser and native operating system context.
In what languages is Flash Player available?
Flash Player is available in Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish on most major browser platforms.
How can I file a bug for Flash Player?
File any bugs in the Adobe Flash Player public bugbase, and the Flash Player team will investigate accordingly.
What is the Flash Player privacy and security policy?
Read more about Flash Player security and privacy.
I just received a dialog box notifying me that a new version of Flash Player is available. What does this mean?
Periodically, Adobe updates Flash Player with new features or fixes to minor problems. The Automatic Notification and Update feature allows Adobe to automatically notify you when an updated version of Flash Player is available so that you can install it right away.
What versions of Flash Player does Adobe support and when will support end?
Adobe supports the latest version of Flash Player available. Older versions of Flash Player are not supported and all users are strongly recommended to update to the latest version to receive all security updates available.  Support for Flash Player will continue until December 31st, 2020. Please read our blog post for additional information.