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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: why does Adobe Flash Player need to update so much?
gpt
Adobe (Originally, Macromedia) Flash is, by Internet standards, a very old format. It comes from the days where every byte and every CPU cycle was very important. This meant that it used various tricks to save space and computer effort.

The programming to work with these tricks is complex, and complex programs have places for bugs to hide, and hide they do. There are bugs that have always been there, waiting for someone to send the program a strange flash file and make it do something wrong. There are bugs caused when modern programmers forget they are working with old code, and are not 'defensive' enough, assuming that the code will do checks that were too (computer-effort wise) expensive decades ago.

There really is only one solution for this - flash has got to go. There is no longer a need for it, as javascript and HTML5 can do everything that Flash does. We just need everyone who makes websites to delete all their flash garbage.