[Discuss] Facebook games on linux

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

On 12/15/2020 11:53 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> My wife plays several Facebook games on Linux. But these are flash based
> and will no longer work on January 1 as I have been told. She uses Chrome
> as her browser. I'm willing to install a hack to retain flash either on
> Chrome or Firefox.
> 
> I am going to try to install windows 10 in a vm. I have an activation key
> that should be valid.

I think that these games makers will be highly motivated to move away
from flash if they haven't already, because Flash going EOL affects
windows too. Chrome is going to blacklist that plugin (it's already a
real pain to use flash on Chrome to click through the warnings).  I
believe using flash after the first of the year is going to be out of
reach for a vast majority of non-technical facebook users, even on windows:

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/09/04/update-adobe-flash-end-support/
> Beginning in January 2021, Adobe Flash Player will be disabled by
> default and all versions older than KB4561600 released in June 2020
> will be blocked.

So I don't think a windows vm will help, and if these people want to
stay in business they will re-write their apps in HTML5 anyway.

FWIW, Citibank credit cards had a virtual account number app that was in
flash that hadn't changed substantially for over a decade.  This year
they finally ported it to not require flash.  So there's hope!

Matt