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Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping..

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On 22-October-2015 5:59 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
> 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.

it does. as is plain to see from the link I gave. the only options are 
're-enable' or 'remove from chrome'.

-- 
rgds,

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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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