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As an OSX User i have 32 (!) rules in my LULU Firewall preventing Adobe to call home, which says a lot


When I still was cc subscriber I blocked a lot of its telemetry but apparently their developers are unfamiliar with a concept of using exponential backoff for retries so it was just spamming requests every second.


If you block their incoming syn-ack packets instead, their apps start a denial of service attack on their own servers!


As a Debian user I have zero issues with Adobe since I don't use or need any of their products.


Please don't.




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