Photoshop's newest terms of service has users agree to allow Adobe access to their active projects for the purposes of "content moderation" and other various reasons. This has caused concern among…
There’s no non-admin way for an app to discern if it’s a firewall block, or a legitimate no-internet situation (i.e. didn’t purchase in-flight WiFi). It would also look really bad PR-wise if a company banned customers just because their internet went down or was otherwise spotty.
How would they even know? Their software can’t tattle on me if it’s been blocked from establishing a connection.
Then you would violate the agreement, which could terminate the access to your stuff and the app.
I doubt that for two reasons:
There’s no non-admin way for an app to discern if it’s a firewall block, or a legitimate no-internet situation (i.e. didn’t purchase in-flight WiFi). It would also look really bad PR-wise if a company banned customers just because their internet went down or was otherwise spotty.
How would they even know? Their software can’t tattle on me if it’s been blocked from establishing a connection.
They could require the app to connect once every 30 days or similar in order to keep functioning.