Flash’s fall from grace continues as Amazon swings ad banhammer

The end of Flash's ubiquity on the web appears nigh.

After Apple’s anti-Flash stance on iOS extended to Android and YouTube dumped Flash for HTML5, Flash’s fate for web video was pretty much sealed. Web advertising, however, was an area Flash still dominated, at least for desktops. Now Amazon has made the first move in what may become a trend for advertising platforms.