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Adobe: How did they do that? - Bosco - 09-12-2014
I'm using CS6 at work. Someone recently sent us a file that was created in CC (it won't open in CS6).
I went to the Adobe website to download a trial version of CC. I created a yahoo email account before signing up. After it finished downloading, a message prompted me to check my email to authenticate. The message had my home email address listed, not the yahoo one I created just for this download.
How does Adobe know my home email address and how would they get it if I used the yahoo address to sign up?
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Re: Adobe: How did they do that? - rjmacs - 09-12-2014
Bosco wrote:
I'm using CS6 at work. Someone recently sent us a file that was created in CC (it won't open in CS6).
I went to the Adobe website to download a trial version of CC. I created a yahoo email account before signing up. After it finished downloading, a message prompted me to check my email to authenticate. The message had my home email address listed, not the yahoo one I created just for this download.
How does Adobe know my home email address and how would they get it if I used the yahoo address to sign up?
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Yahoo sends everything to the NSA, didn'tchaknow? They just sent your home email along to Adobe....
Re: Adobe: How did they do that? - modelamac - 09-12-2014
If you have purchased Adobe product(s) in the past and used your real name, and used it agin this time, your email address is on file.
Re: Adobe: How did they do that? - Bosco - 09-12-2014
modelamac wrote:
If you have purchased Adobe product(s) in the past and used your real name, and used it agin this time, your email address is on file.
I used a fictitious name.
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Re: Adobe: How did they do that? - decay - 09-12-2014
"Vic Ticious"
Re: Adobe: How did they do that? - Jack D. - 09-12-2014
Bosco wrote: How does Adobe know my home email address and how would they get it if I used the yahoo address to sign up?
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Your privacy is important to us and other untruths.
Re: Adobe: How did they do that? - Yoyodyne ArtWorks - 09-12-2014
Satan used to run Microsoft, but he got bored so he moved over to Adobe.
Re: Adobe: How did they do that? - Paul F. - 09-12-2014
I"m just guessing here... but I think they pinged your IP address with a "Any Registered Adobe Products, Sound Off and Identify Yourself!" and your CS6 dutifully responded "here he is!".
Again, just a guess...
Re: Adobe: How did they do that? - M A V I C - 09-12-2014
Was the message in a Web page, or in the application?
Re: Adobe: How did they do that? - Bosco - 09-12-2014
M A V I C wrote:
Was the message in a Web page, or in the application?
The installer application created a cc icon on the menu bar (top right of screen). The message was a drop down from that icon.
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