Blocking the telemetry of Adobe apps

There's telemetry in adobe products that you can't just disable in the app instead of blocking it?

And if there is telemetry that they don't want people to be able to disable for whatever reason, then why would they even separate the servers for it? Why not then just have the license servers and the telemetry servers be the same endpoint so if you block it you aren't running the app at all?

I maintain a list of Adobe alternatives here: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/alternatives-to-adobe/

I had been using Adobe since Photoshop 5.5, but ditched it a couple of years ago and I’ve never looked back.

I understand not everyone is able to get rid of Adobe and their eco-system immediately, but I had the last straw after 1) they slapped a cloud integration on top of perfectly working offline softwares and labelling it Creative Cloud, fucking over existing customers who had prepaid offline licenses and 2) they got hacked and a lot of their customers's credit card info was stolen and many of them had fraudulent transactions on their cards (including mine). They didn't even do a proper disclosure until it blew right in their face.

I thought they would have changed by now, several years later. Turns out, they secretly modified the TOS to steal their customers' intellectual property - content the customers have invested 1000s of dollars into, simply because of the usage of creative cloud to train their AI models. That too, blew up in their face. I am not sure why anyone would even trust or use Adobe in 2025. Honestly.

I have since then switched to the Affinity Suite (serif.com) and never looked back. So, for what it's worth, fuck Adobe and I hope they burn to the ground with their scammy practices.

You can use NextDNS, they have lists which are automatically updated

guess they're running the generator again tomorrow

No way to wildcard `adobestats.io` without dnsmasq?

It's probably a violation of their EULA.

Why are you continuing using the app if you don't agree with their EULA?