🔗 Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File

> They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already installed when you visit on their website.

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> They didn’t have to do this, of course. In fact, quite obviously, they definitely should not be doing this. Adobe is just a third-party developer, no better, no more trusted, no more important than any other. Imagine if every piece of software on your computer added entries to your /etc/hosts file. Madness. Adobe should be ashamed of themselves. Adobe used to be a bastion of best practices for developers to follow. Now their installer/updater is indistinguishable from malware.

<p class=“attribution”>💬 John Gruber</p>