Worse yet, they permit others to track what you’ve been looking at. Bad news: Those previews result in large cache files that eat up your hard drive. Good news: The Bridge lets you preview images without going to the trouble of opening them. If you use Photoshop, then you probably browse your images with Adobe’s Bridge, which shows you thumbnails of your files. Here’s the official marketing description: So much as glimpse a naughty image and its pixels become permanent members of the cache. A single cache file may be several gigabytes in size! Plus, the cache remembers everything you’ve seen. Review enough thumbnails and the cache may grow to extraordinary sizes.

While the Bridge is capable of reviewing hundreds of image thumbnails in a matter of minutes, it has to store those thumbnails somewhere, and that somewhere is known as the cache. Take as an example the worst offender, Adobe’s very own Bridge.

And yet, these are exactly the sorts of treasonous acts that a certain group of programs-known as digital asset managers, or DAMs for short-are designed to perform on a daily basis.

No software goes unchecked no program reveals our misdeeds. It’s like this: Despite the many warnings to the contrary, we tend to imagine that our computers acquiesce to our collective control. Your trusted commercial software-the stuff you pay hundreds of dollars for-may be tracking your every move. So it’s fitting that the topic of this episode takes us into the somewhat adult and potentially salacious territories of sovereignty and privacy. DekePod Episode 014: At fourteen, dekePod is officially a teenager.

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