Adobe will soon be disabling their Flash Player standalone installer download page

Question

Is this how Adobe helps Flash users to keep up to date? It is forcing home users with multiple machines (and/or browser platforms) to go through the tedious Adobe Downloader process on each one of them. But no money in freeware, right? And it increases the chance of undesirable bloatware coming along for the ride if we forget to uncheck those boxes before downloading the downloader.

If the automatic updater was effective in ensuring prompt updating of Flash when a new security update becomes available, it wouldn't matter but the automatic updater sometimes takes several days leaving users vulnerable to Flash exploits for an unconscionable time.

Adobe high-ups are clearly not in touch with reality. Flash is NOT freeware. Flash is the necessary means of viewing the content of providers who have paid Adobe handsomely for its Flash authoring tools. No Flash player, no need for Adobe Flash authoring tools.

_maria_ · Answer

Hi wibble98765,The page that is being disabled is for enterprise customers who license Flash Player, as stated on the page.If you opted into Background Updates, Flash Player should update within 24-hrs of a release.If you opted into Notification Updates, Flash Player checks for an update within 7 days of a release.If you have OS X an update notification dialog window displays when a new version is available.If you have Windows, a (Run Once) registry entry is created to display the update notification dialog window displays after the system is rebooted (or user has logged out/in).The 7 day parameter can be changed (in OS X and Windows) by adding AutoUpdateInterval to the mms.cfg file. The syntax is AutoUpdateInterval=# where # is the number of days between checks. Acceptable values are between 0 and 30 (0 days and 30 days)--Maria

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