Hating flash is like hating paper because most of what is written on paper is advertising and lies. Oceans of wonderful content were made with or had their origins in flash. If you care about the good stuff, you might look up Bluemaxima's Flashpoint.
People hate flash not because of the content but because it causes a lot of problems. At one point, Flash was responsible for over 80% of all browser crashes.
Not to mention dealing with Adobe. Adobe has the most attention whoring software I've ever seen. "Look at me! Flash needs an update! Hey, I'm down here, look update me!" Which includes "Hey, I know it's the same PDF you made three years ago and the format doesn't change all that rapidly, but I really think you need to update your PDF reader...."
Not to mention they immediately deprecated old versions. I ran a K1000 system for my last company, there were seriously times I checked in the morning to see if there was a new version of Flash, there wasn't by lunch time my users were bitching they were getting messages their version of Flash was out of date and wouldn't work on a site. Sure enough, a new version came out between 9:00 and lunch and they already had expired the previous one.
I'm glad to see Flash go just so I don't have to deal with Adobe.
You do need to update your PDF reader, because PDF does too much. If it only did things necessary for displaying content and maybe at most validating form input, it wouldn't be such a security nightmare.
For about 99.9% of PDF's, you can use something like SumatraPDF because those files don't use any of those features, and basically stick to what PDF was originally created for. It's really a very small minority where you actually need to use Adobe Reader.
To be fair, you actually do need to update Flash and Reader. The reason is because like with Java, they were some of the most commonly and severely exploited pieces of software back when they were in common use. Thankfully Java isn't used much on the web anymore, Flash is finally starting to die, and Reader is starting to become less relevant due to built-in PDF viewing in browsers (and Windows defaults to opening PDFs in Edge, so the most common OS too).
The other comment here also nails it, Reader allow
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Hating flash is like hating paper because most of what is written on paper is advertising and lies. Oceans of wonderful content were made with or had their origins in flash. If you care about the good stuff, you might look up Bluemaxima's Flashpoint.
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Not to mention dealing with Adobe. Adobe has the most attention whoring software I've ever seen. "Look at me! Flash needs an update! Hey, I'm down here, look update me!" Which includes "Hey, I know it's the same PDF you made three years ago and the format doesn't change all that rapidly, but I really think you need to update your PDF reader...."
Not to mention they immediately deprecated old versions. I ran a K1000 system for my last company, there were seriously times I checked in the morning to see if there was a new version of Flash, there wasn't by lunch time my users were bitching they were getting messages their version of Flash was out of date and wouldn't work on a site. Sure enough, a new version came out between 9:00 and lunch and they already had expired the previous one.
I'm glad to see Flash go just so I don't have to deal with Adobe.
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You do need to update your PDF reader, because PDF does too much. If it only did things necessary for displaying content and maybe at most validating form input, it wouldn't be such a security nightmare.
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For about 99.9% of PDF's, you can use something like SumatraPDF because those files don't use any of those features, and basically stick to what PDF was originally created for. It's really a very small minority where you actually need to use Adobe Reader.
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The other comment here also nails it, Reader allow