Adobe retired its age-old Flash Player in early January 2021. There are no more updates for it, and Flash Player is no longer available for download. You can’t even run it in a browser, as support has been discontinued altogether.

That being said, there are a number of workarounds and backdoor ways that will allow you to still use the flash player on your favorite browser. Here’s everything you need to know about resurrecting Adobe’s flash player from the grave or at the very least using an alternative to access flash content.

Support for Adobe's Flash Player ended on New Year's Eve 2020, and twelve days later Adobe began actively blocking Flash Player from use in browsers. Adobe even recommended that users uninstall Flash Player from their devices as soon as possible for security reasons.

The Adobe Flash player was riddled with security vulnerabilities right up to the end — one of the many reasons the world's browsers ditched it in favor of HTML 5. Even if you have an old version of the Flash player, a built-in killswitch will render the player useless once it's updated.