Adobe Color CC color theme looks different in Illustrator

Whenever I import color themes from Adobe Color CC, they look different in Illustrator. The cmyk values are the identical but the colors just aren't the same. I guess it has something to do with my color settings in Illustrator but I can't figure out what it is. Here are my color settings:
I read Creative Suite * Keeping colors consistent and some other articles but couldn't figure it out...
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks a lot for any feedback!

That would be a real problem.
You're working with RGB colors on screen when you experiment. Browsers tend to not color manage anything so after the conversion what would you get?
On top of that: printing is different in each country, on each printer, on each paper, with each ink. You can't use the one conversion that suits all needs. Color management for this kind of world wide used web app would be really complicated. And I don't even think of all the people who don't know how to set it up correctly.

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