“Really, Doctor. Must we always play this game? I’m no more a spy than you are …” ” … a doctor.” Garak and Dr. Bashir in Star Trek DS9: “Cardassians” I finally decided to purchase Adobe Creative Cloud for a year. With lots of reservations, given that I am willing to pay for the software I use, but I deeply mistrust cloud solutions. Plus I rather pay more to actually own the software. But with Adobe Creative Suite being discontinued … no luck. It has to be a licensed cloud installation. To make matters worse, Adobe spies on its users per default. Maybe I missed it, but I did not (consciously) see any question on whether I permit Adobe to collect usage data. Even Apple has at least the common decency to ask to send usage data. Most apps have it disabled by default and operate under an opt in policy. Not so Adobe Creative Cloud. After installing the apps I needed (Acrobat, InDesign, Lightroom, Photoshop) my firewall (hello “Little Snitch”) noticed attempts to connect to Adobe whenever I started or quit an app. Some googling revealed that Adobe has: Yes, I would like to share information on how I [...]
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