HI wolfn86397505 Here's a response by Jeromie ========================= Sorry for the frustration. While I totally get where you're coming from, Flash Player is tremendously expensive to maintain and distribute, and we offer it to you for free. The decision about how we do the relevant cost-recovery happens way above my pay grade. The distribution workflow is tested extensively by a small army of quality engineers with every single update. It's really time-tested at this point. We have seen instances where third-party ad-blocking or anti-tracking plugins interfere with the JavaScript that we wrote and have the net effect of disabling the opt-out mechanism, but it's pretty rare. If third-party software you employed re-wrote the code in that specific scenario, there's not really anything reasonable we can do to detect or prevent it. That said, most of the time it's simply that people were trying to get back to the thing they were doing when they were interrupted by the updater, and they just missed the opt-out checkbox. I've personally researched this extensively to ensure that we're always respecting the selected choice (feel free to go back through my post history and look at the dozens of similar investigations I've worked, with zero actual failures) and am pretty confident at this point that we're doing the right thing (at least from a technical perspective). If you show me a video capture or give me a set of repro steps that is consistently broken, it would be at the top of my priority list, and I'd be more than happy to escalate it directly to the installer team and get it resolved. For better or worse, despite making that offer at least several dozen times, I've never seen a case that resulted in a bug on our side and I've spent hundreds of hours looking at it. On the good news front, there are a couple ways that you can enjoy Flash Player without running into the bundled offers: Use Chrome - Flash Player is a bundled component of Chrome, so there's nothing to update or install beyond Chrome itself. Use Internet Explorer on Win8+ - Same deal here. Flash Player is built in to the browser, so all updates come directly from Windows Update. Best regards, Jeromie Clark -- Piyush
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