Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping..

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.tv, aus.politics
Subject	Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping..
Date	2015-10-22 05:59 +1100
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felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> wrote

>>> see: http://ausnet.info/pics/adobe.jpg

>>> why does it need to do any of that!?

>> The first one because its much more than JUST a reader now.

>> It needs to be able to manage downloads
>> when you are asking it to show you a pdf
>> that it has to download to show it to you.

>> It needs to cooperate with other cooperating native
>> apps, because it is what is used to display pdfs in
>> browsers and other stuff like cloud clients etc.

>> It uses your browsing history to see which pdfs
>> it has already downloaded so it doesn’t need to
>> download them again if it has done that already.

>>> Just another case of applications wanting to extract information from us 
>>> for marketing or other purposes

>> Wrong, as always.

> so if it's so innocuous why does Chrome disable it by default?

It doesn’t.

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Adobe Acrobat snooping.. felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-10-19 12:33 +1100
  Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 15:51 +1100
    Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2015-10-19 16:40 +1000
    Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-10-21 11:57 +1100
      Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 05:59 +1100
        Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-10-22 10:22 +1100
          Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 17:04 +1100
            Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-10-22 22:44 +1100
              Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 06:01 +1100
                Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-10-23 08:49 +1100
                Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-24 17:25 +1100
  Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2015-10-19 21:27 +1000
    Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. Trevor <trevor@home.net> - 2015-10-20 15:03 +1100
      Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-10-21 06:20 +0800
        Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping.. felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-10-21 14:11 +1100

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