Interesting, clever technical workaround for (potentially) real user benefit. But still, they should never do that. Working around safeguards and system component borders for user convenience is a very bad idea and practice.

They used to just hit http://localhost/:<various ports>/cc.png which connected to your Creative Cloud app directly, but then Chrome started blocking Local Network Access, so they had to do this hosts file hack instead.

Ok but adobe what if you didn’t portscan me either, please.

deleted by creator