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Actual survey or did I get hacked?

New Here ,
Apr 08, 2024 Apr 08, 2024

I can't remember ever seeing something like this before, but while using Lightroom Classic (13.2) on Windows 10 just now I got this giant popup when I was about to sync some settings across a bunch of photos:

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Is this normal? Or is my Lightroom comporomised? I did not click the Start Now button.

Thanks! Also apologies if this is not the correct coversation type.

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Adobe Employee , Apr 09, 2024 Apr 09, 2024

This is a legitimate survey from Adobe. It is new, so folks might not have seen it yet. 

 

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New Here ,
Apr 08, 2024 Apr 08, 2024

To be more clear, the reason why I'm suspicious of this popup was

  1. It seems a lot larger than things like the What's New window.
  2. The font seems larger than normal
  3. The font face seems different than normal compared to things like the Develop Module Tips or Masking Tips
  4. It popped up while I had the Synchronize Settings window open. It seems like an odd time to pop up a new window like that.
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LEGEND ,
Apr 09, 2024 Apr 09, 2024

Surely, if it was from Adobe, they would know the difference between Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, wouldn't they? The survey should be about Lightroom Classic.

 

Perhaps we could get an answer about whether or not this is a scam from @Rikk Flohr: Photography 

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Community Expert ,
Apr 08, 2024 Apr 08, 2024

I have never seen Adobe offer Dollars for a survey chance!

I would consider it a scam.

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 14.5.1, Photoshop 26.10, ACR 17.5, Lightroom 8.5, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 15.1.1 .
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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 09, 2024 Apr 09, 2024

This is a legitimate survey from Adobe. It is new, so folks might not have seen it yet. 

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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Explorer ,
Apr 09, 2024 Apr 09, 2024

Thanks for clarifying that the survey request was legitimate.


I'm concerned, however, that the survey seemed to be obsessed with AI-based features (as it seems is Adobe), and barely touched on asset management or the many long-standing deficiencies in Adobe's metadata capabilities.

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Participant ,
Apr 11, 2024 Apr 11, 2024

Did you do the entire survey? Quite a few of the AI features they asked about were asset management related (ex, an AI that locates and sorts all your HDR/pano sets, or auto detection of images with shake or missed focus)

 

AI is a big buzzword in the tech world right now, I wouldn't be surprised if the LR team is under orders from on high to implement more features that Adobe can point to their shareholders as them "leveraging AI". Honestly, some of the suggestions they had in that survey were a lot more useful than I was fearing we'd get from the LR team being pressured to do more AI stuff. I think my favorite proposal the survey threw out there was a neural net that would analyze how you cropped an image and apply a similar crop to a bunch of selected images. That would be a huge time saver for me on quite a few things if it worked well.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 20, 2024 Apr 20, 2024

I don't think Rikk can be correct. Adobe would never ever insert a non-dismissable ad or survey right into the middle of my creative process. 

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Community Expert ,
Apr 21, 2024 Apr 21, 2024
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Adobe does these quite regularly. Probably once every 1/2 year or so. They are legitimate. They do them both through popups in the apps as well as through email.

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