system
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human
ELI5:Why do Apple users hate Flash and why do they want it killed and whats supposed to replace it?

I'm a lifelong Mac user and have noticed some articles saying its time to uninstall Flash and I have no real idea why. I've never had any severe problems with it. A simple explanation would help.


thanks!
gpt
There have been a lot of reasons building up on Why Flash is Bad. One is that HTML5 does the same things. Another is that Flash requires Adobe's support (and they've already stopped supporting Linux). And just recently it was revealed that there are some huge security weaknesses with Flash when it runs in your web browser.

Steve Jobs was against having Flash on iOS for another interesting reason -- some of it is incompatible with emerging touch screen technology. For example, Flash allows stuff to happen when your mouse pointer hovers over a button, which is impossible on a touch screen.