[jmount]

Again disappointed by the traditional meaning-warp mod change of title from the original warning claiming that Flash force installs PlayPanel without notice (something I admit I have not directly confirmed, as I don't intend to risk it) to "PlayPanel - Find new games." The original claim was supposedly a direct observation that the Adobe Flash update installs PlayPanel (with or without a hidden check-box). I don't value the "documentation doesn't mention PlayPanel" comments as having much value (as it would be actually nice if Adobe warned about such things).

I'll admit: I have a fairly strong anti-Adobe prior (actually a posterior learned from previous interactions with Adobe and Adobe products). But I still think that is better than the "eager to speak comfort to power" shills/defenders. Also, in this day an age can we fairly test this claim: what if Adobe is running an A/B test on forced install (which would cause some fraction of people to see no forced install)?

Why do I feel I have a stake in this? Because I am the stupid asshole who is going to have to try and uninstall this from family computers after it breaks something (Adobe being historically very clumsy). It isn't really relevant to my experience if my relatives were forced into it or merely tricked into it.