Jason Santa MariaFeb 20

Signed up to use Adobe apps (begrudgingly) for a project and am plagued by these data access dialogs. Even when I click "Don't Allow" they just prompt again the next time I open an app.

This shit is so gross. I don't even know what the apps or Adobe is trying to do, but can't help but feel like it's something I don't want.

Web searches say the way to get rid of the prompts is to allow access đź«Ą

Show threadTim AhrensFeb 21
@jasonsantamaria This reminds me of these scary “Allow screen recording” requests by Adobe apps that started popping up a few years ago. They were (are?) simply for the color picker to work, AFAIK.
Show threadJason Santa Maria
@timahrens That stinks that it is maybe for something less severe. The popup makes it sound like data mining.
Feb 21 at 3:41pmWeb
Show threadKai BernauFeb 21
@jasonsantamaria @timahrens AFAYK, and that’s exactly the problem: our trust in big tech has eroded and now we have come to *expect* abuse, exploitation and overreach.
See also: ad tech; AI-related scraping; what LinkedIn/Persona do with identity verification data…
Show threadJason Santa MariaFeb 21
@kai @timahrens Exactly this, because every time stuff like this comes up, it usually is tech overreach
Show threadNick ShermanFeb 21
@jasonsantamaria @kai @timahrens For whatever it’s worth, when I got the Adobe request to record my screen (https://typo.social/@nicksherman/110239055746383116), I denied it and it didn’t seem to impact my ability to use the color picker at all.
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Show threadJTD TypeFeb 21
@nicksherman @jasonsantamaria @kai @timahrens It’s like the prop 65 warnings. If it’’s on everything, then it doesn’t mean anything.
Show threadCrown®Feb 26

@nicksherman @jasonsantamaria The screen recording request, when approved, allows you to color pick outside of the Adobe app. As in, you can drag the eyedropper outside the window. If you deny it, you can still color pick inside the app.

They could... just say this. But instead, we all have to figure out if it meaningfully impacts any feature or not.

Show threadTim AhrensFeb 26
@crown My understanding is that they (Adobe) cannot just say this because the dialog is from Apple, and they (Apple) cannot just say this because the purpose is not known.
Show threadCrown®Feb 26

@timahrens They can say whatever they want prior to requesting this access, of course. Maybe they “can’t” do it in this dialogue, but that doesn’t mean they can’t communicate this in literally any other way.

They have no problem interrupting veterans of the software about new features all the time. They know how to interrupt us.