They do get more bad press than perhaps others should. There is already a perception about Flash that it is not a great product, which feeds into this. Reasons

They do get more bad press than perhaps others should. There is already a perception about Flash that it is not a great product, which feeds into this. Reasons are varied. - Performance has not been good on Macs (my 2007 Macbook Pro literally burned my legs when running anything flashy) - Flash updates mechanism seems a little spammy. - Long-term perception of Adobe as a maker of a somewhat buggy, somewhat bloated software - Steve Jobs' public denigration - Backlash against proprietary standards being used on the web The best thing about click to play Flash is it puts a stop to autoplay videos on the less reputable sites I occasionally and shamefully glance at for sports news.