There's telemetry in adobe products that you can't just disable in the app instead of blocking it?
And if there is telemetry that they don't want people to be able to disable for whatever reason, then why would they even separate the servers for it? Why not then just have the license servers and the telemetry servers be the same endpoint so if you block it you aren't running the app at all?
You could still just proxy everything through a single endpoint. I honestly don't know why people would run software that phones home to function, yet are worried that it phones home...
I'm just saying large corps move incredibly slowly, especially across internal silos. A big effort just to deter a couple of users fiddling with their network settings.
Meanwhile at Microsoft: Hold my beer [1]! (I'm still looking for the button that disables Microsoft Telemetry, and we don't even know fully what data they collect).
There might be some legal aspect to it when licensing and telemtry are on the same server, but IANAL.
And if there is telemetry that they don't want people to be able to disable for whatever reason, then why would they even separate the servers for it? Why not then just have the license servers and the telemetry servers be the same endpoint so if you block it you aren't running the app at all?