What Adobe is doing is obnoxious.
The idea that I should accept their repeated attempts to sneak crapware onto my computers as the necessary price of their product and blame only myself if they succeed is obnoxious too.
I'd be perfectly happy if Flash didn't exist since practically everything it is used for makes my browsing experience worse. But I want the websites that demand it to be functional and the course of least resistance is to keep updating it... though I'm considering cancelling that and seeing how long I can get away with an unupdated product. But Adobe always claims to be addressing a security issue that they've previously introduced. In any case, the idea that it's some free goodie that I should be willing to pay a considerable price in inconvenience and vigilance for is insane.
I'm here because I was looking for some way to diable the Google toolbar rather than uninstall it. I've many times before declined to accept it, but this time it slipped through. Why anyone could think this malware behaviour is ok is completely beyond me. Adobe is slime, and if you think what they do is ok then you're probably pretty slimy too, whether you realize it or not.
