Adobe: How did they do that?

[Bosco]

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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[rjmacs]

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....

[modelamac]

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.

[Bosco]

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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[decay]

"Vic Ticious"

[Jack D.]

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.

[Yoyodyne ArtWorks]

Satan used to run Microsoft, but he got bored so he moved over to Adobe.

[Paul F.]

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...

[M A V I C]

Was the message in a Web page, or in the application?

[Bosco]

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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