Rant/complainfest about Adobe and Google and bundling..

Rant/complainfest about Adobe and Google and bundling..

I'm really glad that I don't update Flash unless YouTube or something tells me I can't see their content unless I update.

Adobe Community: Bundling Google Chrome and Toolbar???

And yeah, I know this is somewhat old news, but as time goes on, the less and less I trust Google.

It seems that Adobe has made a deal with Google to automatically install Google Chrome unless you uncheck a box if you happen to update Flash player. Granted, I would probably notice this box, but many others don't. This move potentially installed Chrome on millions of computers. Sure, for people who usually used Internet Explorer, this might have been a good thing as IE is just utter crap, but that doesn't excuse this kind of intrusion, especially the way Google installs stuff--the program is located deep and hidden in your profile instead of the regular place it should be in Program Files, they do NOTHING the standard way, they set ALL of their own standards.

And I found this out after I read about how Adobe has dropped flash support for all browsers in Linux except Chrome which will update automatically through the "wonderful" GoogleUpdater that pretty much acts like a piece of spyware (that's as hard to get rid of) with no way to control when and how it does things.

I just wonder how much more nasty it's going to get, whether Adobe may eventually drop support on other platforms for Flash except on Chrome. I also wonder what software will eventually come out that flat out doesn't give you a choice, it would just install Chrome automatically...

Source: http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/science-tech/79596-rant-complainfest-about-adobe-google.html

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