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October 13, 2015
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Why does fpsaud contact websites I've visited (even non-adobe websites)? Does Adobe advertise that Flash tracks users actions?

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Why does fpsaud contact websites I've visited (even non-adobe websites)?  Does Adobe advertise that Flash tracks users actions?

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    jeromiec83223024
    Community Manager
    jeromiec83223024Community Manager
    Community Manager
    August 26, 2020

    I'm going to lock this thread from 2015.  If you have an actual technical issue, please post a new topic.  

     

    Just for completeness, the Flash Player System Administrator's Guide describes the auto-update mechanism and related processes in excruciating detail. 

     

    https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_admin_guide.html

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    October 13, 2015

    Hi aaronm97550419,

    I'm assuming you're on a Mac system.  fpsaud is the Background Update daemon on OS X and it only contacts the Adobe server to check if an update is available.  This only happens if you are enrolled in Background Updates.  If you're not, then the daemon does nothing. There is no tracking involved and it does not contact any other websites.

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    Maria

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      johnyjharris
      Participant
      July 12, 2016

      There is no tracking involved and it does not contact any other websites.

      Then why is my network monitor telling me fpsaud has sent and received data from b.scorecardresearch.com?

      From the scorecardresearch.com website:

      ScorecardResearch, a service of Full Circle Studies, Inc., is part of the comScore, Inc. market research community, a leading global market research effort that studies and reports on Internet trends and behavior. ScorecardResearch conducts research by collecting Internet web browsing data and then uses that data to help show how people use the Internet, what they like about it, and what they don’t.

      _maria_
      Community Manager
      _maria_Community Manager
      Community Manager
      July 14, 2016

      fpsaud is the Background Update daemon and only contacts Adobe servers.  If you have evidence indicating otherwise, please share the network logs with us to investigate further.  You can upload your network logs to cloud.acrobat.com/send using the instructions at How to share a document and post (or private message me) the link to the uploaded file.

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