I don't know whether I should comment on this, for fear popularity will cause Adobe to change it (for the worse).
I have long, and other people recommend, downloading and installing from the full installers. Adobe has made these progressively more difficult to find via their own page structure, but they are still there.
They don't -- or haven't, so far -- contain the crapware. They also don't go through that annoying two part install: Shim that runs and then in turn downloads and runs the full installer (perhaps with crapware).
I take, and have seen recommended, a similar approach with Oracle's Java -- if you happen to be forced to live with it, as well.