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Re:Be Like Clippy by fragmede on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:04PM (#46091222)
The "what" is material to this conversation. BonzaiBuddy, a 90's or early 2000s malware that showed a purple monkey on your desktop, hijacking your computer and collecting your web browsing habits in Internet Explorer, a totally different program, and sending it to advertisers, is different from your computer telling Adobe when Photoshop crashes so they can fix it.
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Re:Be Like Clippy by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:42PM (#46091495)
Except Photoshop does both, doesn't it? Not to mention, the OS itself.

This is a difference of degree, not of kind.

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Re:Be Like Clippy by fragmede on Saturday November 29, 2025 @07:01PM (#46092066)
Photoshop does not monitor your traffic in Chrome/Safari/Firefox/Brave/Ladybug/etc. Photoshop does hit the Internet to use Creative Cloud for fonts and stuff, so they do know about that, though. The difference is in kind. How you're using Photoshop is relevant to Adobe, the creators of Photoshop. The websites you're browsing are not relevant to them and none of their business.
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