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So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem. (images4.imagebam.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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.

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[–] 101 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

This is seriously deserving of an antitrust investigation. An open web is essential.

*Edit: referring to Chrome and its derivatives, not Adobe. Alphabet/Google has been begging for antitrust action for years.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They didn't create Flash. They bought a company called Macromedia who had created Flash.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Proving they don’t understand web technologies...

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Adobe is requiring customers to choose one of three different competing browsers, none of which are owned by Adobe.

    There's no antitrust issue here.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And still it’s basically all Google.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How would that be an antitrust issue?

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Google forcing people to use its browser or pushing companies to develop exclusively for its browsers has broad antitrust implications, especially if they are using their ad clout to push wider adoption.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    It’s far more likely that Adobe is just being lazy/cheap in not supporting a browser with a small market share.

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