Outside of disabling internet entirely on a computer, is there a way to disable all of the features in all adobe apps that upload information for processing?
I have to assume not all users understand how something like generative fill works. It uploads your image, processes it, then sends it back. Transcripts in Premiere, Selections in some circumstances, etc.
You are not always well informed of when something is uploaded.
And in some cases the image is actually saved for review, like if you rate a generative image, the image itself is saved for Adobe to review but it does not inform the user of that. I only found that out while searching through some of their very disjointed documentation.
It looked like maybe you could do that with software profiles, which look to only be available on the full enterprise version (not teams). But it looks like you can only enable/disable full services, so I'm not even sure it would work. You can disable firefly, but would that disable non-local options for select subject? I'm guessing no. And as they add new features this will only get worse.
CS5 had a registry option to disable it, but I added the option and Photoshop would only show the splash screen.
Windows Firewall might be a solution, but it would be complicated to track if the service that is sending information is not the same one as the running software.
Any other ideas? It would be really nice if Adobe would just give us the option to let us run the software and just disable uploading anything. But if I'm working on some silly social media post or something, toggle it back on because it wouldn't really matter if an image of a few people standing outside of a paintball arena were to get uploaded offsite.
I don't mind things being uploaded. I just need to be sure we are able to control What is being uploaded.
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