Marc EdwardsI can confirm Creative Cloud has added to my /etc/hosts file.
Adobe secretly modifies your hosts file for the stupidest reason: https://www.osnews.com/story/144737/adobe-secretly-modifies-your-hosts-file-for-the-stupidest-reason/
Just a trash panda 🦝@marcedwards If I am following, the way they've done this also leaves the door open for any arbitrary website to determine if you have Adobe Creative Cloud installed.
That could be used as an additional datapoint for fingerprinting purposes.
Not that there aren't plenty enough data points already.
@trashpanda Yep, yep, and yep. It’s incredibly reckless.