I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until Adobe, and therefore my job, required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

  • nakal
    39•11 months ago

    Adobe has already proved they don’t understand web technologies when creating Flash.

        • @[email protected]
          16•11 months ago

          Flash was pretty significant in the web’s journey to where it is today. For things like online video, it was the least pain in the ass way, in a time when the alternative was crapware plug-ins like RealPlayer, QuickTime, or Windows Media Player.

          YouTube probably wouldn’t have existed without Flash and FLV.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•11 months ago

        I remember when it was FutureSplash Animator, and my young mind was blown by the possibilities of animations in only a few kb.

    • QHC
      7•11 months ago

      What a ridiculous, tech-ideology-above-all-else take. Not to mention over a decade past being relevant.

      Flash could do things other technology at the time could not. It served a purpose at the time, thus its huge level of popularity.

      • nakal
        1•11 months ago

        Many popular things are crappy. It is not an ideology, unless you consider the scientists who invented the WWW to be some freaks.

        Flash wasn’t really useful, because many people couldn’t display these websites. It was the exact opposite of WWW. WWW enabled people to use hypertext and provided accessibility.