Dear Adobe
Please please please STOP putting McAffee with your very frequent flash updates - or if you do PLEASE stop making it a box that needs to be unticked.
The frequency of the updates is ridiculous - and have to be done manually whuch iis annoying enough - but if you do it fast and don't untick the box you get this unwanted software. If people are genuinely interested, they will tick the box by choice. Putting a box that you need to untick is a clear indication that you want to get people to get this in error. (Similar to the way when I registered now, I had to UNTICK a box that would have allowed you to sell my contact details to spammers!)
PS It's impossible to find a contact email address on your Customer Care Site and I have to use this form. In general this is a technique used by dishonest companies in order that customers do not have a record of their complaint in their own "sent items" from their own email account.
If you do insist on having this ridiculous number of MANUAL flash updates PLEASE STOP PUTTING IN BOXES THAT NEED TO BE UNTICKED
Yours
Shales
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Not gonna happen.
Unless you're willing to pay what Adobe gets from McAfee/Google/Norton for each and every update... those bundled installers aren't going anywhere. You have the option to download the Adobe Flash Player installer directly by clicking one of the following links. Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer) Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers) and there is nothing but Flash Player in those. Adobe doesn't "push" those links because they offest their costs on a "per click" basis for the regular downloads.
You posted "The frequency of the updates is ridiculous - and have to be done manually which is annoying enough - but if you do it fast and don't untick the box you get this unwanted software. If people are genuinely interested, they will tick the box by choice."
1. Updates for most all Adobe products are about every six weeks, and even Microsoft updates SOMETHING every Wednesday which is six times as often. Antivirus updates daily or even more often. It's a fact of life when you own a computer.
2. Updates DO NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, have to be done manually. For EVERY Adobe product (including Flash Player) there is a choice to "Allow Adobe to install updates", "Notify me to install updates" or "Never check for updates".
3. My favorite complaint - "I don't have time to uncheck a box" not in those exact words, but it is your point. And yet.... you took the time to come here, create a Forum account, log in, find the right forum, and post a four paragraph complaint about how you didn't have a quarter of a second (at most) to uncheck a box. It's all a matter of what you CHOOSE to have time for.
I know, I know.... "It's the principle of the thing. The software shouldn't even be included or the box shouldn't be checked", but I already addressed that and even provided you with links to avoid it. (those links will remain the same even as the Player is updated, so bookmark them)
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