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=== User documents forced into the cloud with no opt-out ===

===User documents forced into the cloud with no opt-out===

Some of Adobe's iPad applications, including but not limited to digital painting app Adobe Fresco and document scanning app Adobe Scan, require an account and do not offer any option to opt out of syncing all documents created in these apps with Adobe's cloud servers. There is no end-to-end encryption, i.e. Adobe has full access to all these files. Disabling internet access makes it possible to work offline, but any files created in these apps then immediately sync to the cloud in the background as soon as the device is connected to a network again.

=== Spying on users' eBook reading activities ===

===Spying on users' eBook reading activities===

In 2014, it was revealed that the popular Adobe Editions eBook reading app reported extensive information about users' reading habits back to Adobe. This included several unique identifiers, which books were added to the app, when which one was opened for how long, percentage read, and page navigation information.<ref>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/</ref>

Moreover, all this information was transmitted completely unencrypted in plain text. This meant that even someone who was just on the same Starbucks WiFi would have been able track their reading activities in realtime, entirely undetected.

=== Disrespect for user choices ===

Adobe is known for using a dark pattern where certain options are re-enabled during or after each update despite the user explicitly disabling them before. The same choice is presented with the desired setting as a default many times in the hope that the user will either give up or accidentally forget to uncheck the option.

Instances of this were the options to automatically install updates in the future in the Adobe Flash installer. The same dark pattern is currently used in the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop app, which presents the same option on each update and requires the user to disable it manually every single time if they do not wish to relinquish control to Adobe over when updates happen.

Whether this is to be attributed to stupidity or malice is debatable, as for instance Adobe Lightroom Classic also has a habit of resetting the language to the system language after every update instead of what was manually chosen in preferences, and the Windows version of Adobe Illustrator has for a period that spans multiple different centuries required the user to manually maximise the application window and re-enable the document rulers after each startup until the issue was finally addressed when the application was moved to a different GUI framework.

==References==

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-=== User documents forced into the cloud with no opt-out ===
+===User documents forced into the cloud with no opt-out===
 Some of Adobe's iPad applications, including but not limited to digital painting app Adobe Fresco and document scanning app Adobe Scan, require an account and do not offer any option to opt out of syncing all documents created in these apps with Adobe's cloud servers. There is no end-to-end encryption, i.e. Adobe has full access to all these files. Disabling internet access makes it possible to work offline, but any files created in these apps then immediately sync to the cloud in the background as soon as the device is connected to a network again.
-=== Spying on users' eBook reading activities ===
+===Spying on users' eBook reading activities===
 In 2014, it was revealed that the popular Adobe Editions eBook reading app reported extensive information about users' reading habits back to Adobe. This included several unique identifiers, which books were added to the app, when which one was opened for how long, percentage read, and page navigation information.<ref>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/</ref>
 Moreover, all this information was transmitted completely unencrypted in plain text. This meant that even someone who was just on the same Starbucks WiFi would have been able track their reading activities in realtime, entirely undetected.
+=== Disrespect for user choices ===
+Adobe is known for using a dark pattern where certain options are re-enabled during or after each update despite the user explicitly disabling them before. The same choice is presented with the desired setting as a default many times in the hope that the user will either give up or accidentally forget to uncheck the option.
+Instances of this were the options to automatically install updates in the future in the Adobe Flash installer. The same dark pattern is currently used in the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop app, which presents the same option on each update and requires the user to disable it manually every single time if they do not wish to relinquish control to Adobe over when updates happen.
+Whether this is to be attributed to stupidity or malice is debatable, as for instance Adobe Lightroom Classic also has a habit of resetting the language to the system language after every update instead of what was manually chosen in preferences, and the Windows version of Adobe Illustrator has for a period that spans multiple different centuries required the user to manually maximise the application window and re-enable the document rulers after each startup until the issue was finally addressed when the application was moved to a different GUI framework.
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