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 17:04 +1100
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"felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message 
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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.

Like hell it does.

> as is plain to see from the link I gave.

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.

> the only options are 're-enable' or 'remove from chrome'.

Nothing even remotely like disabling it by default.

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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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