Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.
THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.
I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.
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Mother Bones
in reply to Bob Young • • •At the time it was a serious pain in the neck, but now I am grateful that my Windows computer bluescreened permanently last summer. Because that hastened my plan to "eventually" implement Linux and now I never have to use Adobe again. I was already using some Adobe replacements, but now it's everything.
(And I have you-all on Mastodon to thank for supporting me through that whole trauma and out the other side!)
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MrGrumpyMonkey
in reply to Mother Bones • • •@_L1vY_ Welcome to team Tux. 🐧 Glad to have another M$ refugee join the dark side. Here's your cookie. 🍪
As a [very] long time M$ Windows user and IT Consultant, I managed to transition with the help of a lot of folks. Have any questions, I might be able to help. I'm just an average user, but that has allowed me to point newcomers in the right direction. The journey might be rough, but It'll be worth it in the long run.
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Mother Bones
in reply to MrGrumpyMonkey • • •I've been an average user since last September and boy am I relieved! 😄
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Mother Bones
in reply to MrGrumpyMonkey • • •@mrgrumpymonkey I will probably never dual boot, but I do have an old backup computer running Windows 8.2 that I keep offline for certain things that just can't be run in Linux.
I'm using Mint too and I don't feel bad that it's the most normie distro; I'm not an IT expert. I researched how to do it for several days and then installed it by myself and I'm proud of that. I got myself a commemorative T-shirt as a reward at the time. 😂
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in reply to MrGrumpyMonkey • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Bob Young • •Wolf Munroe ☎
in reply to Bob Young • • •Adobe is a trash company. I'm surprised there's an option to disable the AI feature.
Years ago I wanted Acrobat Reader to stop putting a shortcut on my desktop every time it updated (roughly monthly). AdobeCare told me to install another Adobe software (an administrative policy editor, basically) to make the change as I couldn't do it in Acrobat Reader itself. I couldn't make heads or tails of that program.
I'm on Linux now though, so I should be safe. No Adobe here.