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Adobe Is Spying On Creative Suite 3 Users
If you think Adobe is spying on you, you are correct. Adobe is collecting data on How you use Adobe products via a behavioral analytics firm called Omniture. UneasySilence has posted a screenshot of Adobe program trying to connect to the mother-ship.
Omniture has tried to conceal this “user tracking” by using 192.168.112.2O7.net as the server where the program connects to. 192.168.X.X is a private address range which generally indicates your local network behind your home router. This is a very shady technique and Omniture provides an obscure link to opt-out. Adobe could have simply provided a poll to see how the users use the program instead of secretly collecting usage data. Hopefully the publicity will make Adobe change the setting to make it an opt-in feature.
Source: Valleywag
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