I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

  • @TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    71•1 year ago

    This is seriously deserving of an antitrust investigation. An open web is essential.

    *Edit: referring to Chrome and its derivatives, not Adobe. Alphabet/Google has been begging for antitrust action for years.

    • nakal
      27•1 year ago

      Adobe has already proved they don’t understand web technologies when creating Flash.

          • @realharo@lemm.ee
            16•1 year ago

            Flash was pretty significant in the web’s journey to where it is today. For things like online video, it was the least pain in the ass way, in a time when the alternative was crapware plug-ins like RealPlayer, QuickTime, or Windows Media Player.

            YouTube probably wouldn’t have existed without Flash and FLV.

        • @ffolkes@fanexus.comEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          I remember when it was FutureSplash Animator, and my young mind was blown by the possibilities of animations in only a few kb.

      • QHC
        7•1 year ago

        What a ridiculous, tech-ideology-above-all-else take. Not to mention over a decade past being relevant.

        Flash could do things other technology at the time could not. It served a purpose at the time, thus its huge level of popularity.

        • nakal
          2•1 year ago

          Many popular things are crappy. It is not an ideology, unless you consider the scientists who invented the WWW to be some freaks.

          Flash wasn’t really useful, because many people couldn’t display these websites. It was the exact opposite of WWW. WWW enabled people to use hypertext and provided accessibility.

    • @FlowVoid@midwest.socialEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      Adobe is requiring customers to choose one of three different competing browsers, none of which are owned by Adobe.

      There’s no antitrust issue here.

      • @TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        24•1 year ago

        Google forcing people to use its browser or pushing companies to develop exclusively for its browsers has broad antitrust implications, especially if they are using their ad clout to push wider adoption.

        • @FoxBJK@midwest.socialEnglish
          17•1 year ago

          It’s far more likely that Adobe is just being lazy/cheap in not supporting a browser with a small market share.

            • QuokkaEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              No it’s not?

              Many websites are only ever tested to work on Chrome because companies don’t care about catering to the smaller userbases of the other browsers.

        • QHC
          1•1 year ago

          What does Google have to do with Adobe not supporting one specific browser not made by either company?