A simple Adobe Reader download became a bloatware nightmare
I made the mistake of downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader. What occurred next was the download from hell. Without asking me, Adobe downloaded not just the reader, but two versions of Photoshop, Creative Commons code and some other crud. It also attempted to install a chrome extension that would have had power of attorney over anything I did in Chrome. It also attempted to download McAfee anti-virus software, and that was very bad because I already have anti-virus software and terrible things happen when you have two of them. Adobe clearly doesn't give a damn how it can totally mess up a person's computer with an extra anti-virus program!! It gets worse. The download and install could not be stopped. Desperate to prevent the install of McAfee, I had go into Windows tasks and kill the installer. I prevented McAfee but now I found that I could not uninstall the two versions of Photoshop (2023 and 2024). I had to download a barebones Adobe clean up program that runs a text-based script, and run it 4-5 times until I wiped out everything Adobe. Everything. I cannot tell you how pissed off I am at Adobe. I will never trust them ever again. Never. Adobe knows what it is doing when it drops a bunker bomb of bloatware on your computer. This is not an innocent act. This is *intentional*. I would use very strong language here except it is probably not permitted by TrustPilot. If this isn't enshittification, I don't know what is.