The Flash Purge is worse than I thought
5 years ago
General
Adobe & Microsoft's hateboner for Flash has gone too far and it's going to get worse.
Not only have they blocked browsers from running flash, but they've even blocked SWF File Viewer from running flash files.
That's right, not even stand-alone flash players are safe.
Not to mention the fact that Microsoft themselves will release a Windows 10 update that will uninstall Flash from your computer if you haven't done so already.
Thankfully there's a solution, one that doesn't involve downloading a gratuitous amount of flash files, only to play with a small amount of them, though I'm honestly afraid that it may not last very long.
What you must do, is go HERE and download the Flash Player Projector Content Debugger. With it, you can load swf files perfectly, though due to the fact that it's an adobe application, it may become unavailable in the near future.
Long Live Flash!
Not only have they blocked browsers from running flash, but they've even blocked SWF File Viewer from running flash files.
That's right, not even stand-alone flash players are safe.
Not to mention the fact that Microsoft themselves will release a Windows 10 update that will uninstall Flash from your computer if you haven't done so already.
Thankfully there's a solution, one that doesn't involve downloading a gratuitous amount of flash files, only to play with a small amount of them, though I'm honestly afraid that it may not last very long.
What you must do, is go HERE and download the Flash Player Projector Content Debugger. With it, you can load swf files perfectly, though due to the fact that it's an adobe application, it may become unavailable in the near future.
Long Live Flash!
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Long Answer: Flash apparently has security flaws that Adobe either can't or won't fix.
I say "apparently" because I've not seen these oh so scary security flaws, therefore they probably don't even exist.