Amazon is the latest high-profile firm to distance itself from Adobes Flash Player. The product is getting an increasingly poor reputation as an attack vector for cybercriminals. Apple, Mozilla and Google have already made similar moves away from the player in the past few months. The best bet may be disabling it via the plugin settings of the browser or by choosing the click-to-play option so it only runs when users feel confident. Industry groups are starting to urge their members to think about HTML5 as a way of delivering digital content.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/news/amazon-to-disable-flash-player-in-hosted-ads/