Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: Acrobat reader 7.0 is out

[david]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 15:36 -0400, Noah Dain wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2005 7:32 AM, Philippe Landau <lists at mailry.net> wrote:
> > Art Alexion wrote:
> > > Philippe Landau wrote:
> > >> how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users,
> > >> and how to disable their snooping system:
> > >> http://helping.net/p2p/AdobeAcrobatSpyingonUsers.html
> > > The post cited suggests disabling all plugins.  Overkill.  A "throwing
> > > out the baby with the bath water" approach.  Just figure out which .api
> > > file is the culprit and delete it only.
> > please explain the procedure for a simple user.
> > 
> > kind regards     philippe
> > 
> > 
> 
> 7 seems to hang on startup, no matter what I throw at it.  Funny that
> the oss pdf readers have no problems though ...
> 
> This is just impetus enough for me to bother deleting it from my system.
> 
> gg adobe.
> 
> 
> -- 
Yes,
I found this too.
I discovered that it seems to install itself to the wrong place. If you
open the install file and get the Adobe folder and copy it to /usr/lib
then symlink the Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread to /usr/bin then
functionality is as expected.

David