[PDF] Don't Worry, Life Is Easy
Hans Dagenais
If you have disabled the option, it should be like that after relaunching the application. As the settings reset, try reinstalling the application using the following steps:
-Remove the application and run the cleaner tool ( -docs/acrobatetk/tools/Labs/cleaner.html).
-Reboot the machine
-Install Adobe Acrobat from the following page: -dc-downloads.html.
I had issues with blue popups for every sort of acrobat feature getting in the way- signatures, sharing, comments -- slowed me down, so I went back to the 2020 "Classic" Acrobat Pro based on a suggestion from another forum user and I couldn't be happier.
Adobe doesn't want to make your life easier. I have gone through all the registry settings that control this and turned off all the popups and I am still getting them. They happen about 3-4 seconds after a PDF is opened, so if I am scrolling or printing a document, it interrupts whatever task I am in the middle of. Do this 10-20 times a day, and it becomes a major PITA.
Seriously. I mean Adobe shut up, get out of the way and let me use the software we are paying for. Stop trying to be helpful. It is not helpful it is annoying. If you want me to recommend your product, make it easy to turn these annoying tips off.
Despite a day or two of using Reader 2020 & all my efforts at preventing auto updates, Adobe still did it. So I've uninstalled for the last time & switched to Foxit. You are your own worst enemy Adobe. I hope you have some means of tracking these forums & learning from it. Jumping on the AI band wagon & trying to foist unwarranted, unnecessary and impossible to opt out of intrusion on users is utterly unacceptable and deplorable.
I pay for this (Acrobat Pro with Creative Cloud). I do not want pop ups interfering with my work flow. Put an option on the Help Menu for a path to details on new options & (internal Adobe advertising) . . . I am working on a newsletter, I don't want pop ups for tax filing . . . really? Put that crap in the reader version if you must, after all it's free, but "WE" are trying to work here!
If a PDF is protected it opens in the new version, which is not on my computer and when I click to disable new version and click restart, nothing happens. It stays on the newer version, I can't get the popup to stop popping up and all the suggestions don't work because this version is not on my computer. Even though the PDF is saved on my computer. It only opens on protected PDF's. How do I get it to stop opening in the new version when it's not on my computer and won't let me disable it. If i go under perferences it says to remove protection, and when I do I can go to the old version which is on my computer.
Its offensive that we have to deal with this. How is Adobe this bad at user experience design? Every time I open their app i have a two minute disruption to my day and i have to close three separat pop ups to just get to my task at hand. I no longer have cable because I cant handle the disruption of an ad. Don't interfere with my headspace Adobe. You DON'T have my permission to push me ads. I CAN do this without you.
They are only incentivized to offer a minimally viable product, anything else would be a waste of resources. It feel really horrible to daily run into the enshitification of everything. It trully feels like so many of these providers aim for the absolute minimum point of workability. But don't worry. Some other startup will start up, draw in obscene investment, provide a wonderful product to get the public fully onboard, once userbase is locked in go private, maximize profits above all else until it all withers into useless unpleasant garbage and then the cycle can begin again.
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"
If at this moment you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise old fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The immediate point of the fish story is that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. So let's get concrete...
A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. Here's one example of the utter wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic self centeredness, because it's so socially repulsive, but it's pretty much the same for all of us, deep down. It is our default-setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: There is no experience you've had that you were not at the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is right there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV, or your monitor, or whatever. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real-you get the idea. But please don't worry that I'm getting ready to preach to you about compassion or other-directedness or the so-called "virtues." This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.
By way of example, let's say it's an average day, and you get up in the morning, go to your challenging job, and you work hard for nine or ten hours, and at the end of the day you're tired, and you're stressed out, and all you want is to go home and have a good supper and maybe unwind for a couple of hours and then hit the rack early because you have to get up the next day and do it all again. But then you remember there's no food at home-you haven't had time to shop this week, because of your challenging job-and so now after work you have to get in your car and drive to the supermarket. It's the end of the workday, and the traffic's very bad, so getting to the store takes way longer than it should, and when you finally get there the supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all the other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping, and the store's hideously, fluorescently lit, and infused with soul-killing Muzak or corporate pop, and it's pretty much the last place you want to be, but you can't just get in and quickly out. You have to wander all over the huge, overlit store's crowded aisles to find the stuff you want, and you have to maneuver your junky cart through all these other tired, hurried people with carts, and of course there are also the glacially slow old people and the spacey people and the ADHD kids who all block the aisle and you have to grit your teeth and try to be polite as you ask them to let you by, and eventually, finally, you get all your supper supplies, except now it turns out there aren't enough checkout lanes open even though it's the end-of-the-day rush, so the checkout line is incredibly long, which is stupid and infuriating, but you can't take your fury out on the frantic lady working the register.
Anyway, you finally get to the checkout line's front, and pay for your food, and wait to get your check or card authenticated by a machine, and then get told to "Have a nice day" in a voice that is the absolute voice of death, and then you have to take your creepy flimsy plastic bags of groceries in your cart through the crowded, bumpy, littery parking lot, and try to load the bags in your car in such a way that everything doesn't fall out of the bags and roll around in the trunk on the way home, and then you have to drive all the way home through slow, heavy, SUV- intensive rush-hour traffic, et cetera, et cetera.
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to foodshop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home, and it's going to seem, for all the world, like everybody else is just in my way, and who are all these people in my way? And look at how repulsive most of them are and how stupid and cow-like and dead-eyed and nonhuman they seem here in the checkout line, or at how annoying and rude it is that people are talking loudly on cell phones in the middle of the line, and look at how deeply unfair this is: I've worked really hard all day and I'm starved and tired and I can't even get home to eat and unwind because of all these stupid goddamn people.
Or, of course, if I'm in a more socially conscious form of my default-setting, I can spend time in the end-of-theday traffic jam being angry and disgusted at all the huge, stupid, lane-blocking SUVs and Hummers and V-12 pickup trucks burning their wasteful, selfish, forty-gallon tanks of gas, and I can dwell on the fact that the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell phones as they cut people off in order to get just twenty stupid feet ahead in a traffic jam, and I can think about how our children's children will despise us for wasting all the future's fuel and probably screwing up the climate, and how spoiled and stupid and disgusting we all are, and how it all just sucks, and so on and so forth...
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