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Originally Posted by BrickyBrian
I started to reply to your thread and then recognized that I had confused Adobe with Amazon so I looked at "https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...computer.shtml"
The first answer that came up was, "Even Powering Down A Cell Phone Can't Keep The NSA From Tracking Its Location"
I'm not sure what that has to do with, "Adobe Digital Editions instead?" especially as looking at what Adobe Digital Editions are I see that it's an ebook reader software program from Adobe Systems, built initially using Adobe Flash and is used for acquiring, managing, and reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications.
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Interesting. The headline I see when I click on the link is:
Is Adobe's Ebook Reader Spying On What You Read -- And What You Have On Your Computer? which pretty much says it all. And you don't do a Google or other search on the link, you simply click on the link to open it (preferably in another tab or window) And yes, as the story says, ADE was sending information to Adobe with no encryption so anyone could see the data going by. The Ars Technica link is
Adobe’s e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text [Updated]. This is why my computer still has adelogs.adobe.com in the hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1 to block such antics.
As for ADE? It is also used to download Adobe Content Server DRMed files from libraries, Google Play, Kobo when downloading DRMed content to your computer and most other sources of DRMed epub and PDF files (the acquiring part of the description). You may or may not have noticed that quite often you don't get send an epub or pdf file but rather a filename.acsm (Adobe Content Server Message) file which allows you to download the actual file along with other information such as the file expiry date.
One other item is that when you add a link using the Insert Link tool, if you don't modify the text portion of the link, the display will be shortened where you see the ... inserted in the link.
Is Adobe's Ebook Reader Spying On What You Read -- And What You Have On Your Computer?
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...computer.shtml