Yep, I remember that clearly. I’d opt out of the McAfee download, but boy were they sneaky.
Apple worked hard to kill Flash, and for the most part, I think it has mostly been an improvement not having to worry about it.
Much of what Flash did has been incorporated into OS and browser basic functionality.
That’s why the Flash Player has been deprecated for years.
Similar to what happened to WinZip I suppose.
My first programming language was Actionscript.
While I now use a Mac, I will never forgive Steve Jobs for killing Flash.
Bastard.
It is dumb that the click through license when you first install or boot Windows is considered perpetual permission. Nobody reads that thing (which requires following hyperlinks on another computer, IIRC).
~Max
Steve Jobs put Mac on x86 – that was awful. But mostly, I am annoyed with him for killing HyperCard.
Do not ever speak of HyperCard to me. I loved it. I was making stuff in HyperCard as a little kid, I even experimented with MacinTalk within HyperCard.
Its death was painful to me. 
The one good legacy is that when I first learned how to do web design, I realized it was just HyperCard with more code.
Yeah, Mr. Jobs killed a bunch of dreams.
He also inspired a bunch of dreams, so I find it hard to judge the man objectively.
How did pitting Microsoft turn into ranting about Steve Jobs?
His turtlenecked ghost trolls Microsoft from beyond the grave.
The ghost of Steve Jobs is having boat drinks with the ghost of Paul Allen.
He inspired Ashton Kutcher’s dream of winning an Oscar.
I guess if you want to beat on MicroSoft, they recalled Recall, but will bring it back to Windows in a month or two.
(Recall is a feature that takes constant screenshots of your computer and parses the data out of them so that, if you screw up, you can find out what you were doing 10 minutes ago, or yesterday. Also, “feature” is a synonym for “bug”.)
Sorry for any delays in responding here. My computer has started randomly activating airplane mode and shutting off my internet access.
I’m sure this is a valuable feature that is protecting my computer and I should be grateful.
That sounds suspiciously spyware-y.
Also my choice of porn genre is nothing to do with Microsoft!
Have you tried opening a pdf in Firefox, Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge? I don’t know if one of them would allow that since I haven’t tried it, but you can open a pdf in all three browsers and try it out. Your right-click “Open with” menu should offer one or more of those choices, depending what browser(s) you have installed.
I just opened a browser window in FireFox and dragged a random pdf onto it. Up near the title bar, there is a toolbar with several thingies, and one of them allow you to draw on the pdf. I put a caricature on my signature near the bottom of the page and did a “save as…” When I did a quick preview of the copy, it was as I saved it. So, yeah, you can at least do it in FireFox.
Disclaimer: this is not a Windows computer.
Very good! I open pdfs in a browser by right-clicking the pdf icon, selecting the “open with” menu choice, and clicking on either Firefox, Chrome, or Edge – all three are available in my Windows setup and all three work.
ETA: Just tried the drag into a Firefox window and it worked for me.