Would it be possible to remove the or update the "sample" response language about Flash?
So for folks who hand wrote thousands of lines of Actionscript code for Adobe Flash, it is incredibly upsetting and frustrating that a witch hunt went after Flash which we believe was part of a tactic by google to ensure its ads cannot as easily be blocked. Specifically google used all this "modern web" nonsense to become the monopolistic browser in place of internet explorer and to use that "power" explicitly to bend the future web to their will.
This is so upsetting, there are not words to describe it. And the fact that the "answer" is that folks who spent years and thousands of lines of code for Flash, now "simply need to completely re code everything from scratch in a new language" is offensive beyond recognition.
Please consider removing this "standard" response language or at least acknowledge the awful burden that was placed on folks by the decision to join the rest to remove the most popular web technology that helped build the internet, because google must serve everyone ads. It is just gross.
Honestly, we thought Firefox would defy the witch hunt and keep flash working to differentiate and look after the poor developers who suffered from this terrible, terrible action.
p.s. on the day Flash was officially killed off, chrome had more active "severe" security vulnerabilities than Flash. Thus, chrome is objectively less secure than Flash. I wonder how much google spent on paying news companies to post stuff about how "insecure" flash is and the stupid "modern web." I wonder if said "news" companies checked the claims, or just took the payment and posted their "sponsored content."
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p.p.s. javascript is also orders of magnitude less performant and efficient than Flash. This is primarily because Flash ran natively and used hardware acceleration.
So this harms our poor planet even further by using more resources. But that is "ok" because computers and internet connections have gotten faster, so that "justifies" a less efficient way of doing things according to google, the w3c and others.
Either way, there is still a ton of Flash content and people still wish to use it. Not to mention the time and effort Adobe put into the product.
google inserted a propriety thing called wideine that all browsers now have to pay them for, including Firefox. It's all just so gross and we stopped using google anything after what they did to Flash.
Rant completed and google is a terrible and evil company.