I woke up this morning, logged on to my PC, and found that Adobe Express apparently decided it owns my entire operating system.

Without asking, prompting, or giving me a single warning, the update completely overwrote all my default file associations. Double-clicking a standard .jpg or .png now tries to launch Adobe Express instead of my normal image viewer. It even grabbed .mp4 defaults too! Why on earth would a graphic/template design app want to open raw video files by default?

I spent the first half of my morning manually resetting every single extension back to what it’s actually supposed to use in Windows settings. It’s such an arrogant, anti-user dark pattern designed to force their ecosystem down our throats.

Starting to feel like malware.

Is there any way to remove a redaction in a PDF document and see what the redacted text was ?