No way to opt out of CC Beta

[Svein_Skogen]

I was told by a "Community Expert" to start a new thread for this:

Recently the CC main app "upgraded" itself to a beta version with a "social" home tab bloat I can't remember asking for. And I cannot remember being asked to participate as an unpaid tester of Adobe's beta software.

Being forced to install the CC desktop to use the software I've paid for the license of is bad enough. This bloat in itself only worsens the annoyance of being forced to have the CC cloud installed (along with the genuine disadvantage spyware/rootkit security violation).

But being forced to run beta quality bloatware without even getting notified that Adobe are ONCE AGAIN abusing their customers, is one annoyance too many:

Where's the option to opt out of the beta versions of the bloatware? Or is Adobe going to compensate every user they have violated with this by not charging their software rent price for the period they are beta testers?

[kglad]

adobe software bloat has long been a concern predating adobe cc by years. that statement's not meant to mitigate your displeasure. it's meant to indicate that no update is likely to change that.

it's something you can call to adobe's attention (though i'm pessimisstic that it will result in any meaningful change):

 for applicable apps, you can make (some) suggestions to adobe here, https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/x-productkb/global/how-to-user-voice.html

for others, use https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

also, (and possibly more effective) use the feedback option

[Svein_Skogen]

It's been my experience that Adobe gladly ignores 10 000 requests to remove a feature, while prioritizing the one request to add another whistle or bell (which is why the wishform is pretty much useless).

My issue here is on principle.

Most of the people having the CC desktop installed has _ZERO_ interest in that app in itself. The reason they have it installed, is because it's the only way to get the productivity apps that they DO want installed. Same goes for the spyware/rootkit "Adobe Genuine Disadvantage" (their DRM solution/backdoor).

Adding the "home" stupidity to bloat the involountary desktop app even further, is a double barreled middle finger straight to the face of most of their customers. Especially since even if the thing is minimized to taskbar, it continues to refresh and load web pages using god-knows-what cpu hungry rendering engine, that also uses GPU resources. So it LITERALLY makes the experience of all their apps poorer.

The Beta feedback doesn't let people give the feedback "I simply do not want this". It's about as useful as an "emote only chat" on a twitch stream, or a dry ice teapot, unless your feedback is to emote how great everything is. And here's the real problem: Adobe has left plenty of channels to praise their newfound forced-social stupidity, but no way of critiquing it, quite possibly this was by intention to show how "most feedback is positive" (if the only feedback you CAN leave is positive, then most feedback will be positive), and march on over the cliff.

Last time they annoyed me, was when they effectively made my surface dial useless. Now they are doing their utmost to make their installer useless. Do they really want me to start looking for alternatives to the adobe apps I actually use, so I'll stop giving them money? Because that is where I am now in the decision process. The moment I can replace Acrobat for scanning, Photoshop ecosystem for editing stills, and Premiere ecosystem for videos, I'm gone. Lightroom is already replaced (don't know if the forum permits mentioning superior software here, so I won't name it, but it's made in Denmark). I can install the fonts I have via CC from other sources, I don't use their (frankly useless) cloud services (I have both onedrive and dropbox, I don't need yet another cloud service that is proprietary to just a portion of my software). The only reason I have the complete CC suite, is that having more than one ecosystem as separates is economically stupid unless you get the whole shebang. But currently I'm seriously considering becoming an ex-customer over the arrogance shown by Adobe in installing beta-grade software without permission in the first place. It reeks of an attitude towards their customer that is anything but respectful.

[kglad]

@Svein_Skogen 

re: your previous post

i disagree with one of your statements, but i don't think it's worth debating because i found the rest of your post to be cogent and well-stated.