Comments on: Macromedia! Cease and Desist! http://cogdogblog.com/2005/01/07/macromedia-cease/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen Downes http://cogdogblog.com/2005/01/07/macromedia-cease/comment-page-1/#comment-1069 Stephen Downes Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/01/07/macromedia-cease-and-desist/#comment-1069 I reinstall browsers and mess around with my system enough that I fairly often end up using a browser without Flash, etc., installed. I am sympathetic with the letter-writer (if not his expression). Hitting a site with Flash (or any other MM product) is really annoying if you don't have the plug-in installed. You get pop-ups, your browser minimizes when you hit cancel, you can't turn any of this stuff off... I found myself installing the Flash plug-in just to get rid of the error messages (which, in the early days of Firefox, was a long job - today you just click a button - phew). So the marketing is effective - but I still have a sour taste over it. I reinstall browsers and mess around with my system enough that I fairly often end up using a browser without Flash, etc., installed.

I am sympathetic with the letter-writer (if not his expression). Hitting a site with Flash (or any other MM product) is really annoying if you don’t have the plug-in installed. You get pop-ups, your browser minimizes when you hit cancel, you can’t turn any of this stuff off…

I found myself installing the Flash plug-in just to get rid of the error messages (which, in the early days of Firefox, was a long job – today you just click a button – phew). So the marketing is effective – but I still have a sour taste over it.

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