Adobe abuses AdSense to force “We Love Apple” pop-ups for Mac, Opera users
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It reminds me of the used car salesman in True Lies when he's posing as a spy and trying to get Jamie Lee Curtis to sleep with him. "If you won't do it for me, then how about doing it for your country".
I am flash-free for a year now and don't regret it the slightest.
My main focus was on the point that Adobe was targeting specific users, with the pop-up.
I'm also a bit perturbed that someone could emulate what Adobe has done, and use it as an attack vector, with widespread consequence.
I'm new to HN, is there no down-vote or report as inaccurate mechanism?
Also I don't know what brand you think I'm worshiping. I am not an Apple Fanboy, I refuse to even use an iPod, not a Google Fanboy, I criticize them fairly often, and as for Adobe, I use their desktop tools, but on the web I don't think of them much. I despise brands, because they promote homogeneity. I prefer products that work the best, and go with what works.
They're calling out Apple through it's other core base, that can use Flash. The Flash also isn't in the add on Linux or Windows, unless of course you are using Opera. If you are using one of these systems or those without, or disabled, Flash, you only see a hyperlinked .gif.
There may be a lot of reasons like business disruption, and fun. Or may be just Adobe going nuts!
"For what it's worth, this project was done with a rather rapid turnaround, and I'd be surprised if there was bandwidth to innovate new ways of disrupting popup disruptors within it...."
(I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea. I personally hate Flash for technical reasons, but it really comes down to having choice. I don't use Flash and won't develop Flash apps... but you can do whatever you want.)
Because it seems a lot of crap coming here these days, nobody double checks actually.
This would have been much more interesting had it shown flash on ipads/iPhones.