![]() ![]() ![]() You keep professing that the DC version of Adobe Acrobat can be used without enabling the cloud, so why is it there at all if that’s the case? This is nothing but Corporate bullying and extortion, period! You misrepresent that the cloud feature is “optional” yet you failed to inform the end-user that if he/she accepts the upgrade, the new version with its “cloud” feature, you can not revert back to the previous version of Adobe Reader without much stress and frustration of trying to do so, if at all. So, yeah, I fixed it… no worries… and hopefully it won’t break itself again. That’s a generalization, by the way… seems to be happening all over the industry. I honestly debated disabling the auto update feature as well, just in case it tried to “fix” what I had “broken” but I reconsidered because I didn’t want to expose them to potential threats from outdated versions… then I re-reconsidered and disabled it anyway because it seems that every time a massive software developer patches a flaw lately… they try to jam in a whole slew of new “features” they can turn into a revenue stream and, in doing so, open a dozen more flaws than they patched. Works just fine without it for what they’re needing. ![]() ![]() They’re a credit union and try to follow the principle of least access but the forced cloud integration built into the application sort of massively violates that principle… just a wee bit… so I removed it. This particular client didn’t need or want any sort of web enabled functionality anyway. Meh, I just deleted the Chromium Framework folder and it’s working just fine now. ![]()
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