Safari is slowly ending support for Flash Player

Apple was practically the first to reject native Adobe Flash support on its devices, and today it also has the opportunity to become the first to kdo will completely drop his support. As Safari Technology Preview 99 testers on Mac have already discovered, the browser no longer supports the Flash plugin at all, nor will it allow you to install it. Is therefore jen a matter of time than this change will also be reflected in the regular version of the browser.

However, the vast majority of websites have long since given preference to code in languages HTML5 and JavaScript, games can use the dedicated Unity engine a videos run in formats like .mp4 or .mov. In short, Flash Player can only be found on outdated websites such as for example Grand Theft Auto IV official site from year 2008. The need to install Flash Player is also enforced by fake websites that reward you with a virus.

However, the end of Flash Player support was already announced in 2017 by Adobe itself, which agreed with internet browser manufacturers to phase out the technology. The reason given is security and higher performance requirements plugin versus more modern standards. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge plan to support Flash Player until December 31/2020, when Adobe finally retires its development.

Another interesting thing from the world of Safari is that Google researchers have discovered several security flaws in the Smart Tracking Prevention system first introduced in macOS High Sierra. The system based on machine learning is supposed to recognize advertisers and services that monitor your movement on the Internet and prevent themacclamation them to follow you. At least according to the official description.

But Google experts last summer found that the feature has five serious flaws that allow advertisers to continue to harass users and the feature may not always work as it should. He could make mistakesy also allow the advertiser to gain complete access to the user's browsing history and therefore know how to bypass the system even if errors are removed. Fortunately Apple is aware of the issues and fixed them in the December/December Safari update.

Source: MacRumors