Took me hours to find out where Yahoo came from! And how to remove it since I couldn't find it. I'm really PO'd. I'll be learning more about this C--p!
Adobe is also infected with the same marketing virus.
Adobe/Macromedia,
Drop the Yahoo affiliation - the marketing $ are not worth your reputation. Your inaction says more about you than Yahoo.
What a ridiculous thing to do to "bundle" something so poor into your software you worked so hard to make so good.
Don't become another spyware company
I absolutely agree that as both a "consumer" and web developer, I do not endorse the bundling of any non-essential software in the flash or shockwave players.
Adware is one of the most frustrating things on the internet. What makes anyone think they have the right to install something on my computer without asking me?
I totally agree. And I consider all spyware/malware, and any other program or plugin that installs itself with out the consent of the user, to be an infringement of privacy.
For me, it's way too little way too late.
Through Group Policy on all the DCs in the forest, flash players and associated software have now been disabled. What a ridiculous situation to have to get to this - but at least management is in full agreement with me on this decision.
It is totally unnecesary to do this! Please remove the yahoo toolbar from flash. I people want the yahoo toolbar, they'll go to yahoo and GET IT. As a developer, I cannot recommend Flash if I know an unrequested (and unrelated) product will be downloaded with any necessary plugins to use my website properly, using software I paid for!
I hope MM reverses this decision soon.
By packaging other products with your software is the same as selling out your customers. Without your customers and your customer's confidence in your company, you are nothing.
Weird, I never thought that a company like Macromedia would do this, they already have accomplished so much, why do they wanna decrease there standards.
Flash player should remain lean and mean - that's the reason why we chose FutureSplash all those years ago and helped shape the Flash community that exists today. Please do not betray our work but maintain Flash's high quality and reputation for being the only truly essential plugin. No junk.
bye-bye Yahoo; please, pretty please, pretty please with sugur on top. If not it's bye-bye flash, bye-bye me developing flash apps & bye-bye me as I leave for a new life of Yahoo free bliss... ;)
Tsk...Tsk...Tsk.. you'd think there marketing & PR departments alone would have known NOT to do this...much less the techies who allowed it. Shame on you "MM"..shame.
At a point in time when Flash should be trying to prove that it is more than just a source of annoying banners this is an astounding jib!
Why would Macromedia decide to take a leaf out of Real Networks' grubby and discarded little book? There's cash of course, but when you consider the reputation and trust that they have built up, and the extent to which this will tarnish it…
If short-term thinking of this type is the shape of things to come then we'll see a slow & painful commercial suicide for MM. Then again, they might be shocked at how quickly things will move on.
Macromedia? THIS IS NOT GOOD! The yahoo toolbar download is completely unnecessary, and in my opinion very distracting. Macromedia Flash has come a very long way and I hate to see it take a turn in the wrong direction this late in the game.
Flash development is on the rise. It may one day take over the internet as we know it, as broadband increases and the demand for rich interactive internet content increases. However, a flash plug-in is required for download either for an update or an older/independent web browser. The last thing Macromedia Flash needs is to lose some of it’s outstanding credibility with the quick buck. The move is wrong. It’s not good for Macromedia and most certainly not good for Flash. It’s hard enough to convince people to download the “latest version of flash” and if bombarded with browser toolbar add-ons and advertisements it’s not going to workout.
What is a toolbar? To me: a waste of valuable browser window space, an ad campaign, and internet clutter.
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Anti spyware? The added antispyware detector remover is great for after the fact but, if one is really concerned, as well they should be, then this shouldn't be the only product they rely on.
Once the toolbar is installed, you'll need to either sign in to your Yahoo account or register for one--a minor inconvenience. (so we have a person downloading the latest flash player and they don’t see the check box and now they have to Get a yahoo account so they can find a way to get it working so later they can take the dam thing off.)
macromedia this is not your style! nix the toolbar.
Lol. I'm a Mac user, so I don't really need to care about spyware. All I know is that until Flash Player 8 comes out, we get a MUCH slower plugin than the PC users.
