Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File

“thenickdude”, on Reddit: They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already installed when you visit on their website. When you visit https://www.adobe.com/home , they load this image using JavaScript: https://detect-ccd.creativecloud.adobe.com/cc.png If the DNS entry in your hosts file is present, your browser will therefore connect to their server, so they know you have Creative Cloud installed, otherwise the load fails, which they detect. They used to just hit http://localhost:<