Does Adobe have an affiliation with google? Is that why they keep trying to cram Chrome and Chromium onto everyones computers? If you happen to miss the check box that stops this installation you have it automatically installed. I think that they should have it the other way around where you have to check the box if you want it.
wiley0ne wrote:
whenever I update Acrobat Reader it has a box to uncheck for Chrome.
Just remembered a possible explanation for this one -
A few years ago, (about 2011) Adobe collaborated with Google in the development of new css features for the web, and submitted specs for inclusion in the W3C's recommendation process. These included such things as css shapes, (for wrapping text around shapes or to follow shapes inside images, (without having the text as part of the image).
There was also a css spec titled css regions, which was a way to include an external html document 'snippet' in another html document, (simple cms). This however was removed by Chrome, a few years later, (about mid 2013) and as far as I know this ended the collaborative partnership, as Adobe stopped 'being interested' in future web development, and possibly explains the lack of Adobes interest in html5, css3 and modern javascript.
This collaboration, and the 'offer' of downloading Chrome, may have been part of that agreement.
pziecina wrote:
Just remembered a possible explanation for this one -
I suspect there could be monetary considerations as well. What I usually see bundled with Flash updates is (again with the default checkbox set to "on") an offer to install MacAffee antivirus in my system. I'm guessing that for every install, a few coins change hands.
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