If you want to disable this feature while using the extension, you can right-click the “Adobe Reader” extension icon on Chrome’s toolbar, click “Options”, uncheck the box, and click “Save”.Īdobe provides more details about what’s collected, and the program doesn’t look as bad as it might sound.
By default, the extension “sends anonymous usage information to Adobe for product improvement purposes”. However, Adobe also enables the “Adobe Product Improvement Program” when you install the extension. This actually isn’t too unusual-browser extensions normally need a lot of permissions to integrate with your web browsing. It wants to “read and change all your data on the websites you visit”, “manage your downloads”, and “communicate with cooperating native applications”. The Adobe Acrobat extension is raising eyebrows because of the permissions it asks for. The Extension Shares Anonymous Usage Data With Adobe While viewing a PDF in Chrome’s built-in PDF reader, you can click the “Download” button at the top right corner of the PDF reader page to download it to your desktop and then open it in Adobe Reader DC. However, this is also a feature that’s available in Chrome without the browser extension. The extension’s toolbar button also allows you to quickly switch from viewing PDFs to opening them in Acrobat Reader DC on your desktop.
Windows 10 now has built-in PDF printing, too. Print the document from here and Chrome will save it as a PDF file. Just click the menu button, select “Print”, click the “Change” button under Destination, and select “Save as PDF”. Its toolbar icon says it can “Convert current web page to an Adobe PDF File.” That sounds convenient, but you can print to PDF in Chrome without any additional software. This browser extension provides a few other features, too-none of which you need. RELATED: How to Print to PDF in Windows: 4 Tips and Tricks You don’t even need to enable the extension to use Adobe Reader normally.Ĭlick “Remove from Chrome” and you can continue viewing PDFs and using Adobe Reader normally. Google Chrome has an integrated PDF reader, and the Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF-reading plugin is separate from the extension. RELATED: The Best PDF Readers for Windowsįirst things first: you don’t need this extension to view PDF documents in Google Chrome. It Offers Features You Don’t Need, That Are Already Part of Chrome
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