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DeletedAllAdobeFromMyComp
Participant
December 16, 2016
Question

Deleting the bloatware

  • December 16, 2016
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Heyo Adobe. Just wanted you to know that I deleted Adobe Acrobat specifically because of the bloatware you tagged on to the install. I've gladly used Acrobat for years, as well as photoshop - Because of your aggressive and volcanic spread of junk that you know that I don't want, I'm going out of my way to never use an Adobe product ever again.

One question - How many customers have you lost with your terrible and unethical marketing tactics?    

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Dov Isaacs
Legend
December 16, 2016

Exactly what “bloatware” are you referring to?

The installation of Adobe Acrobat installs only Adobe Acrobat, nothing more, nothing less!

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
DeletedAllAdobeFromMyComp
Participant
December 17, 2016

Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader also ninja-installs both McAfee and TrueKey.

What makes these both especially annoying is that the installation edits your registry, changing your computer's start-up, so that when I installed Acrobat and it installed Truekey surreptitiously, when I tried to uninstall Truekey, it had to restart before I could uninstall it.

dov​ - you know exactly what bloatware I'm referring to. Why are you pretending that Acrobat doesn't install other programs that the user never wanted?    

R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 17, 2016

I didn't get either MacAfee or TrueKey.

Which has me curious ... where did you install this from?

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 16, 2016

are you talking about adobe reader?