Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation::Adobe could face hefty fines related to its overly difficult and costly subscription cancellation practices due to an ongoing Federal Trade Commission Probe.
remember boys and girls it’s always morally responsible to pirate Adobe programs.
Or better yet, just don’t use Adobe products. Staying in their ecosystem is how they end up getting money anyways if that’s what you know how to use.
Yarr/Yo-Ho!
Can you get a semi current build of photoshop? Asking for a friend who is struggling with gimp and hasn’t sailed in ages…
Gave up on Photoshop and Gimp. Take this, you’ll need it:
Haven’t used anything else in years.
I use Photopea all the time, I love it because the UI is almost an exact copy paste of PS, my only complaint is I wish they had a lifetime license to get rid of that side bar ad, the only options are all subscriptions/monthly. And I know the donate page literally says they don’t do subscriptions, but what else do you call a one time payment for 30 days of ad free?
Ad block works to block the ad, but I haven’t found a way to get that screen space back.
I’ll give it a spin. Ty!
Back in the day there used to be a patch that could block the app from communicating with adobe’s servers to verify the subscription.
That might still exist in some form, but with all of phthoshops new AI features I’d imagine that you’d need constant communication with those servers for the app to actually function.
I’m sorry I didn’t provide any actual help.
That takes me back…I used to work at a computer training company where we would build PC images with the trial versions of everything on them, and every 30 days we’d reimage the machines. The president of the company was shady af. I got out of there just as Adobe was making the transition to subs. I do not miss explaining to the class attendees why everything was watermarked as trail versions.
Acrobat X started failing for me using that crack. Launches and immediately shuts down.
I actually have no idea but it has to be available somewhere
Their terrible business practices is why I refuse to use Adobe. I have heard too many horror stories.
I haven’t found it too tough to remove all Adobe products from my workflow. And not even just by going full Richard Stallman, underpants-on-head raving Free Open Source and subsisting on pinecones and berries in the forest, either.
There’s basically nothing Adobe software does that some other company doesn’t also offer (or a FOSS alternative, if you don’t need to do anything heavy duty). CorelDraw and PhotoPaint are comparable options to replace Illustrator and Photoshop for 2D vector and bitmap manipulation, respectively. DaVinci Resolve or even OpenShot can replace Premiere for the majority of users. And sure as shit nobody needs Acrobat or Reader or whatever the fuck they’re calling their PDF package these days; everything supports PDF’s natively. The days of Adobe having a stranglehold on that are over.
The only viable excuse for being locked in to Adobe products anymore is if that’s what your workplace or school uses and you’re stuck with it. Otherwise, they can just fuck off as far as I’m concerned.
Clip Studio Paint and Krita are fantastic options for 2d art, and can be better than Photoshop for drawing and painting.
As far as I’m concerned, Adobe’s name is mud.
This is a fucking trap. Monthly subcription is a bait to force you into monthly but commit annuall subcription. And you got to pay the fine if you cancel.
So, it is basicly lock in unaware user.
I wonder what if a user use adobe for 13 months and cancel ? Do they have to pay the fine too ? Got to cancel the percision moment to avoid fine ?
This why we have regulations and why we NEED it
This is exactly why you have corporate politicians screaming about “government oversight” and they’re adamant about taking away all the corporate teeth from the FEC, FTC, CFPB
So their donors can get away with shit like this
I’m sure this all hinges on their weird “annual commitment” thing.
Paying a fine to cancel a monthly is bullshit.
Paid for by people who can’t cancel.
Sadly the fine won’t be greater than the benefits this practice brings to Adobe so they’ll keep doing it.
It’s getting easier and easier to use free alternatives to Adobe products.
What if people used burner cards in order to avoid the difficulties canceling?
What kills me, and it doesn’t happen often but I’ve seen it, is when they can detect the burner card as a ‘prepaid’ (Privacy particularly) and are like “Sorry we don’t allow prepaid cards. Credit or debit only!”
If they don’t accept PayPal that’s a red flag for me.
How do you get burned cards? I want that for Sirius
Alternate headline: Adobe faces cost of business fee to dupe users out of money
For this reason I have never and will never buy an Adobe product. I’m an anti Adobe activist in all decision making conversations around their product suite and services.
I’ll never change my mind.
