Last week, Adobe abandoned development of the mobile version of the company's Flash browser plugin. Now, a group calling itself "Occupy Flash" has launched a campaign to get Adobe to abandon Flash altogether and push Web developers to HTML5.

"Flash Player is dead," the group's "manifesto" pronounces, citing constant updates, crashes, and security and privacy concerns over the technology. "Flash makes the web less accessible. At this point, it's holding the web back."

Taking its cue from the Occupy Wall Street movement and, as the site's authors say, "fairly shamelessly co-opting populist terminology," the people behind Occupy Flash are urging computer users to uninstall Flash, much in the way that a similar group pushed last year for computer users to uninstall Internet Explorer 6—a movement Microsoft even got behind.

A spokesperson for the group told Computerworld's Gregg Keizer that by dropping mobile Flash, Adobe had created "a roadmap for splitting the internet into two. They know they've lost the mobile battle, so keeping Flash Player alive on the desktop ultimately doesn't accomplish anything."

The group insists that its effort is not a campaign against Adobe, or even against Flash itself. "We're sure there are plenty of good uses for it, such as building great [Adobe] Air [desktop] applications," the group wrote on its site. And while the members wish to remain anonymous—"We decided not to make this about us, but about Flash Player," their spokesperson told Keizer—they insist that they are not employed or funded by any Adobe competitors.