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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 ===

===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.

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.

=== User information leaks and data breaches ===

In 2013, credit card information and personal data of 38 million customers was exposed in a data breach.<ref>https://medium.com/@maazptl240602/the-adobe-attack-of-2013-a-cautionary-tale-of-cybersecurity-failure-1ef4ec74eb64</ref>

In 2019, Adobe left about 7.5 million Creative Cloud customer records in a database in gross negligence. The database was publicly accessible online and not even protected with a password.<ref>https://www.zdnet.com/article/adobe-left-7-5-million-creative-cloud-user-records-exposed-online/</ref>

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 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 ===
+===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.
+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.
+=== User information leaks and data breaches ===
+In 2013, credit card information and personal data of 38 million customers was exposed in a data breach.<ref>https://medium.com/@maazptl240602/the-adobe-attack-of-2013-a-cautionary-tale-of-cybersecurity-failure-1ef4ec74eb64</ref>
+In 2019, Adobe left about 7.5 million Creative Cloud customer records in a database in gross negligence. The database was publicly accessible online and not even protected with a password.<ref>https://www.zdnet.com/article/adobe-left-7-5-million-creative-cloud-user-records-exposed-online/</ref>
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