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Uninstall it. I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting with your last line, but I have never heard of Acrobat Reader "re-installing itself" when upgrading Flash.

Edit: Just gave it a shot, installed and uninstalled Acrobat Reader 11, then updated Flash. Adobe Reader did not "re-install" itself and there was no prompt to install it.

I live without flash since 2 years. Its not so hard anymore now that youtube uses html 5 videos.

I've taken to using Chrome for Flash. It includes Pepper, a Google maintained version of Flash. You will never be presented with an Adobe Reader prompt again.

Pepper is NOT a "Google maintained version of Flash." Pepper is Google's newer plugin API, and Chrome bundles a version of Flash that uses that uses Pepper/PPAPI rather than Netscape/Firefox's NPAPI.

For more info, check out the Wiki page on NPAPI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI