>Tik tok doesn't double as a customer service for big companies, Tik tok doesn't have a market place, Tik tok isn't widely used to recruit candidates for jobs.
Yet. Yet. Yet.
There was a time Facebook had none of these things as well.
Maybe you want to play/watch the thousands of Flash games/animations that exist? Use legacy software that depends on Flash?
I agree that it's an insecure piece of crap that shouldn't be used in any modern system, but that doesn't mean that everyone should be restricted from trying to use old software that depends on it, as long as they asume the security risks of doing so.
There’s a lot of original content (animations and games mostly) that only lives in .swf format. It would be nice to keep flash around if just for archival purposes.
So that Ferry Halim's Orisinal page does not have to show this message instead of presenting you with wonderful games: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
The majority of the benefits seem to be for developers, not for customers. Effectively-free features like tool bars, file dialogs, and right-click lookups sure are nice to not have spend development hours on. However, as a customer...how does that matter to me?
