To the extent that there are still Flash based sites out there, if anyone is “at home” maintaining those sites, they will have to switch to HTML5. Running anything that interacts with a bunch of websites and doesn’t get security updates is a huge risk. So, even though with many websites switching to HTML5 or at least being “HTML first” and dropping down to Flash only when HTML5 is not available, people are not spending as much time and effort creating exploits, running Flash if there are no security patches whatsoever would be a huge risk.
Adobe used to have to update their stuff constantly to try to plug holes. As many of the readers of this blog probably know, there was a time when Flash was the #1 vector for malware to people’s home computers and laptops. I think the key issue here is that Adobe is dropping support for Flash. It is planned that the ESR release will continue to support Adobe Flash until July 2021 when the next version of ESR is released. Adobe did reveal in the Flash Player End of Life FAQ that Flash content won't run anymore using Adobe Flash Player after the EOL date. The next major Firefox ESR release is Firefox 91.0 ESR it is scheduled for a July 2021 release.
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