Google, Apple and Microsoft forced them to do it. Html5 was made by a guy at Apple and a guy at Google. So much for the enemy picture they paint up. Microshart, or better known as Microsoft, helped push it and shady behavior from them deleting my standalone twice by "accident" on desktop. Adobe had the standalone flash player buried on their website and called it the "flash player debugger" but got busted in 2022 so gone now however so tech guys got the authentic one, likely someone from Adobe, and have it available. I downloaded it, made multiple copies, stashed them in random folders, pinned one to taskbar and put original one in a folder, disinherited Microsoft from altering the standalone then encrypted folder. Hasn't happened again. Never deleted my built in one and daily since 2021 I turn back date and time to December 2020 and play flash games online on flash friendly browsers on sites that aren't secure, according to Google, and not one hack attempt, virus, malware, Spyware, ransomware or adware. Gaming Co. tried to learn it after they decided to kill it in late 2015 so more html5 games going up plus html5 ads and many more ads caused conflict between players and they blamed flash every time viruses or hacking got bad for 5 years and many are gaslit into believing it's insecure. Nope. Like virus software having 2 different ones at once conflict. Gaggle, Crapple and Microshart now make ALL ad and game money & have total control. One day the internet will fail entirely. Html5 is perfect for sites like tenor since it auto animates entire page but not good on main web platform. Can't do most of what flash could. As nasty as these reasons for banning it are it's for more sinister reasons later. I hate these companies!