Comments on: A nice guy wants to get into my house from my Adobe window (aka Octoshape Grid Delivery enhancement) http://blog.savvasmalamas.com/2008/12/20/a-nice-guy-wants-to-get-into-my-house-from-my-adobe-window-aka-octoshape-grid-delivery-enhancement/ Made with Macromedia Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:15:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Karl Beyer http://blog.savvasmalamas.com/2008/12/20/a-nice-guy-wants-to-get-into-my-house-from-my-adobe-window-aka-octoshape-grid-delivery-enhancement/comment-page-1/#comment-6467 Karl Beyer Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:15:00 +0000 http://savvasmalamas.com/blog/?p=147#comment-6467 Yes, when you see that installation dialog for the first time, you sit back like a deer looking at headlights. You wonder - is this legit? So you read the user-agreement and then discover that it wants to use your computer to serve content to others. And then you still wonder - is this some malware? I was upset actually. I visited CNN and I get this very intrusive installation dialog, that wants to use MY computer to watch CNN live videos? I rarely watch videos on CNN, for the most part, that 'news' agency is becoming more like HollyWood insider or 'People', or the 'The View'. Anyway, I don't like Adobe allowing third-parties access to this functionality, and even as a software engineer, it really confused me. Did I mention I don't like it? Because I don't! Yes, when you see that installation dialog for the first time, you sit back like a deer looking at headlights. You wonder – is this legit? So you read the user-agreement and then discover that it wants to use your computer to serve content to others. And then you still wonder – is this some malware?

I was upset actually. I visited CNN and I get this very intrusive installation dialog, that wants to use MY computer to watch CNN live videos? I rarely watch videos on CNN, for the most part, that ‘news’ agency is becoming more like HollyWood insider or ‘People’, or the ‘The View’.

Anyway, I don’t like Adobe allowing third-parties access to this functionality, and even as a software engineer, it really confused me. Did I mention I don’t like it? Because I don’t!

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