🚀 go-pugleaf

I am having the same problem this morning. I run a computer shop in Rockford Il. a lot of my customers are either senior citizens on a fixed income or low income people cause of large families or the serious lack of employment. Economically this town is a mess since NAFTA hit, either way, a lot of folks are still running older computers that occasionally need service. This morning I am doing a fresh install on an older 700mhz Cyrix III that needed a new hard drive. Sometime in the last 48 hours, adobe went and added the google toolbar as a MANDATORY install as soon as you land on the adobe reader page. this computer is too old and barely handles IE7 as it is.
but the real problem is the google toolbar itself. there are several antispy and virus programs that will not let it install. Once installed, you cannot remove all the pieces of it. The fact that adobe has removed the freedom of our own choice to install adobe air and now the google toolbar is sheer madness. there are other ways to read a pdf file. If you are having the same problem with an older or low powered laptop, please let the people at adobe know by voicing your opinion. Don't give us what we don't want or need- it is our choice what we put in our computers, not yours. I am a semi retired FCC lic. broadcast engineer, and according to the communications act of 1936, who's laws still apply today, any product or device that is modified or improved in the future MUST still be able to comply with all previously built equipment. Go to FCC.com and find out more. In the meantime, you can find several older bootleg copies of acrobat on limewire that will allow you to read pdf files without the toolbar.

Don't let big business railroad your decisions- this is America, and at the moment we still have freedom of choice.