Stuart Langridge1d ago

RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116352453766199250

"OK we want our website to know which software you have installed"
"You can't do that"
"Sure, but we want to do it anyway. Maybe we have the software listen on a port and then we can try loading stuff from that port?"
"No. Zoom did that so it got banned"
"OK what about we edit their computer's local config?"

sigh. the shitty arms race continues.

Show threadkirch
@sil oh dang, Adobe is still doing that? I remember, maybe 10 years ago, that Adobe was killing my dual-boot by corrupting the hosts file somehow
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Show threadChristian Berger DECT 276314h ago

@kirch @sil AFAIK they were actually modifying the bootloader.

I mean it's Adobe, they don't care about their users.