Happened to my coworker yesterday. Me today. When acrobat pro opens, a pop up window about editing pdf's come up and freezes. You can only close the application using the task manager.
Sympathies, because I wouldn't bet they listen to you any more than they listen to us... but if possible, could you please relay to the execs that the saying wrt forcing people to be advertised to and sell their data for AI, "If you're not paying for the product then you ARE the product" is supposed to be either-or? As this imbroglio and other recent news shows: Adobe seems absolutely determined to squeeze every dollar they can out of its customers, and it's gotten very very old. It's not going to take much more of this before people start leaving in droves.
How do I stop this pop up from even coming up? Just *another* "improvement" from Adobe that's only irritating, not helpful! Do they just sit around and think of ways they can make their software a bigger PITA?
You can stop messages from Adobe in Menu > Preferences > General. Under Messages from/to Adobe untick "Show me messages when I launch Adobe Acrobat". Never had to do this previously as didn't get the same message repeatedly everytime I opened a document. Perhaps Adobe need to change the setting on their message, so that once someone's read it, it doesn't get shown again.