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Flash

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23 articles decelerating

Flash has appeared in 23 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2021Q1 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Adobe, HTML5, YouTube, Google.

Articles
23
mentions
Velocity
-50.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
-1.500
velocity change
Sources
16
publications

Coverage Timeline

2020-07-08
Ars Technica

A retrospective on a nearly 25-year history of Flash, as Adobe prepares to officially end support and distribution of Flash Player in December 2020

Before Flash Player sunsets this December, we talk its legacy with those who built it.  —  Few technologies have yielded such divisive and widespread passion as Flash. Tweets: @wiredcoach , @john_m_ne...

2018-03-04
BleepingComputer.com

Percentage of Chrome users who've loaded at least one page containing Flash content per day has dropped from 80% in 2014 to under 8% today, according to Google

Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com : Tweets: @davezatz . Thanks: @campuscodi Tweets: Dave Zatz / @davezatz : Uh huh, and what about IE8? http://twitter.com/... Thanks: @campuscodi

2018-03-03
BleepingComputer.com

Percentage of Chrome users who've loaded at least one page containing Flash content per day has dropped from 80% in 2014 to under 8% today, according to Google

The percentage of daily Chrome users who've loaded at least one page containing Flash content per day has gone down from around 80% in 2014 to under 8% in early 2018. Tweets: @davezatz . Thanks: @camp...

2014-12-18
Wired 5 related

The FBI used Flash code from abandoned Metasploit side project to identify Tor users in Operation Torpedo

The FBI Used the Web's Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users  —  For more than a decade, a powerful app called Metasploit has been the most important tool in the hacking world …

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

Flash has appeared in 159 Techmeme articles since December 2014. The biggest stories include Adobe says it will stop updating and distributing Flash at the end of 2020 and Gemini 2.0 Flash LLM early impressions: spatial reasoning performance is impressive, and.... Frequently covered alongside Google, Gemini, NAND, Adobe, and Adobe Flash. Coverage has shifted toward regulation, competition themes and away from consumer, funding.

Key Moments

2024Q3consumer -17pts; funding -17pts
2024Q4developer +40pts; consumer -13pts; research +60pts
2025Q1developer +60pts; consumer +80pts; research -60pts

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