Photoshop 2025 oddity

[Gene5FBC]

I recently used the color selection tool to grab a color for use as a background. A kind of light brown.

After I left Photoshop, my browser opened a window to Amazon offering to sell me eye makeup products in the same color I mentioned above.

How did this happen ?

Thanks

[LAMY2017]

Cookies?

[Gene5FBC]

No. I'm more of a popcorn kind of guy.

[jane-e]

@Gene5FBC 

It might not be Adobe. I've been reading about Facebook tracking and I don't like it. It could also be a browser.

https://www.wired.com/story/ways-facebook-tracks-you-limit-it/

Jane

[Gene5FBC]

I'm not a Facebook member. Adobe should make sure things like this don't
happen, IMO.

[jane-e]

I'm not a Facebook member.
By Gene5FBC

Again, it could be another app, such as a browser. Does it happen when all other apps are closed?

Jane

[Gene5FBC]

It happened after I left Pshop. The Amazon page opened behind Pshop. Very disturbing.

[Trevor.Dennis]

This was with Photoshop?  Was it Photoshop on the Web?  As Jane has said, that has nothing to do with Photoshop.

[Gene5FBC]

Photoshop 2025. On the web.

[LAMY2017]

Window>Application Frame turned off to see an underlying webpage so that you can sample colors outside Ps (a thing)? Gurgle was watching.

Hey, I've even have had a browser open to the product Siri overheard me talking about! (shh, s/he might be listening)

[D Fosse]

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but this is the dark side of AI showing its face. Massive amounts of data are harvested in real time and fed into targeted advertising.

What's new is the types of data harvested. Yes, it's true, the phone records everything you say. It turns out this is a function that you can actually disable - but with great difficulty and few people know how (I don't).

I don't think it's Photoshop per se, but there's an embedded web browser in Photoshop and god knows what it's up to. Aside from that, nothing surprises me anymore. There's just too much money in this to pass up. Google or Meta or Apple could fund a medium-sized nation all by itself.

[Gene5FBC]

Whatever caused this should be a serious concern for Adobe and all its customers. Spying on Photoshop users is not acceptable.

[creative explorer]

My sistr had sent me an email the other day about Microsoft where in your permissions, you can turn off AI permissions for training. Mine was always turned off.

You think it's the same thing for Adobe, but under their preferences for adobe.com, especially for @Gene5FBC  using Photoshop for the Web. Because I do use Adobe everyday, night and day, I am actually OK with Adobe letting to use whatever I do for AI?

[Gene5FBC]

I'd like to hear directly from Adobe on this issue.