Flash-related security flaws are discovered faster than Adobe can patch them, and many are so serious that they completely expose user's computers to hackers-including personal data like passwords, photos, and bank account records. Unless there's a specific reason why you need Flash, keeping it off your Mac is for the best.įlash is a battery life killer and many Websites have already moved on to HTML5 for multimedia content, plus the platform is a major security risk. Since Flash isn't installed with Apple's operating systems, the only time someone should encounter a dialog asking if they want to temporarily enable the multimedia plug-in is if they explicitly install it themselves. That goes for some other plug-ins such as Silverlight and QuickTime, too, but Apple is calling out Flash in its WebKit notes. That means the decreasing number of Websites relying on Flash, like the BBC, will finally realize we aren't living in 2002 any more.Īdobe's Flash is dead and blocked in macOS SierraĪpple considers Flash a legacy plug-in and Safari in macOS Sierra will act as if it isn't installed. As if we don't already have a long enough list of reasons why Flash shouldn't be installed on our Macs, Apple is giving us yet another with the introduction of macOS Sierra: Flash in Safari will be disabled by default.
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