Deleting the bloatware

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
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

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)

DeletedAllAdobeFromMyCompAuthor

Participant

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?