I've had an interesting experience. YouTube stopped working, and I am told that I have to upgrade my Adobe Flash Player.
It comes with a license agreement, which is normal.
It's long and complicated and custom, which is fairly normal.
The software comes with a distinction I don't care about, between 'serialised' and 'unserialised' installations, which is a bit sad.
In order for Adobe to enforce that distinction, they will phone home and tell Adobe what I'm doing with the player. That's very sad.
I'm currently not upgrading, and living with the broken YouTube. Some time, when I pull together the time and motivation, I'll start contributing to one of the competing Flash implementations, of which there are two: swfdec and GNAT.
Comments welcome.
I now know, by having accidentally changed computers, that Elmedia player plays flash without Adobe Flash being installed.
ReplyDeleteThe latest version of Google Chrome comes with Adobe Flash (real Flash from Adobe) preinstalled.
ReplyDeleteI haven't worked out whether it contains the offending feature yet.