Deleting the bloatware

[DeletedAllAdobeFromMyComp]

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?    

[kglad]

are you talking about adobe reader?

[Dov Isaacs]

Exactly what “bloatware” are you referring to?

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

          - Dov

[DeletedAllAdobeFromMyComp]

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]

I didn't get either MacAfee or TrueKey.

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

Neil

[kglad]

you posted to the wrong forum.

a lot of us are unhappy about the reader/flash player tag-along-ware.  to prevent future issues, do not auto-update and untick the options to install unwanted software.

but they're not installed surreptitiously. the options are plainly visible.  but i think they should be opt-in, not opt-out.

[moved from Installing, Updating, & Subscribing to Acrobat to Acrobat Reader]

[Dov Isaacs]

(1)     Acrobat, the product you pay for either as a subscription or as a perpetual license, does not install anything other than Acrobat.

(2)     Reader, the free product, does offer options to install other products (depending upon platform and other considerations). In no case does the installer install those other products without informing you and permitting you to uncheck the options to install same. This has been true for a number of years.

Since you claimed that you have used Acrobat and Photoshop for years, the reasonable assumption is that you were not referring to Reader.

          - Dov

[analib]

I'm currently trying to get rid of a TON of Adobe bloatware--Adobe brand--and it's doing everything in my power to prevent me from doing it. I've wasted half a day at work because my computer is so slow and I've run out of options...not that it matters, because Creative Cloud will just reinstall itself in a few days.  Adobe is crap. 

[Bernd Alheit]

Why have you installed Creative Cloud? You don't need it for Acrobat Reader.