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Re: Adobe Acrobat snooping..

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On 22-October-2015 5:04 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
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> "felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message 
> news:d8ql2aFa5akU1@mid.individual.net...
>> 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.
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> Like hell it does.

it does you fucking liar. sick of your bullshit

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>> as is plain to see from the link I gave.
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> That doesn’t disable it by default.
>
> ALL that does is tell you that it does more of
> what it lists than the previous versions did
> and allows you to decide if you care or not.

no you moron. it is disabled by default as you can see here.

http://ausnet.info/pics/acrobat2.jpg

THAT'S why the option is to ENABLE it or REMOVE it

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

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>> the only options are 're-enable' or 'remove from chrome'.
>
> Nothing even remotely like disabling it by default.

idiot

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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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