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On OSX with just Photoshop CC installed, there's around 10 adobe related processes running at any given time, all the while making connections and sending data to both adobe and non-adobe (CDNs) IPs. And that's AFTER you disable all of it's settings including run at startup. There's even an adobe Node.js instance (wtf?) constantly running and using CPU.

I don't take kindly to my system being commandeered, so I cancelled my CC subscription, removed their bloated, slimy POS software and bought Affinity Photo.



Go to /Library/LaunchDaemons/ and delete what you don't want to run at launch. (At your own risk of course.)


Better to run "launchctl list | grep -iv com\.apple" for both yourself and root; there are multiple places that startup items can be placed.


Don't delete. Instead, run "launchctl unload -w <file name>". This will stop the service and disable it from loading on boot.


Tried that, didn't work. My guess is that Photoshop ran some kind of script that re-enabled it. I went to great lengths trying to gracefully disable all the CC crap before I gave up and rm -rf'd every damn file/directory containing adobe.




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