Adobe: A Disgusting, Criminal Company

8:10 , For some reason the image got deleted quoting the terms of service. My apologies!

pirating adobe products is morally correct

Another scummy company is Autodesk.

I refuse to use "software as a service" for simple practical reasons; I don't know what my financial situation may be in the future, and if I had to cancel the subscription then any files I've created with it become useless. It means I have to pay what amounts to a ransom to unlock the data I created in the past. That just is not acceptable to me.

I urge everyone to not use adobe products. Not even to pirate them. The less the industry relies on them the sooner correct changes will be made. I've been loving using the Affinity suite and Davinci resolve for video work. Short of Adobe being the industry standard they're just better products, less prone to crashes too

Imagine the future… Adobe decides to double or even triple the monthly subscription fee… and there’s nothing you can do about it. This is why subscription software is a fucking con.

A lot of people don’t realise that when a product gets wrapped as a service, there’s another catch, that you are on the latest version and you have no choice. If the latest version breaks something that matters to you, TOUGH!!

If people stopped giving Adobe money, and donated a fraction of that money to GIMP, Krita, and Inkscape, we'd have world class Open Source alternatives that everyone can use, and no company could take away from us.

Back in the day, I made stuff for giant clients like COCA-COLA, PEPSI, HEINEKEN, CITIBANK, NIKE, SAMSUNG, BMW, and whole bunch of others, using Photoshop 5.5 which you can literally copy and paste on as many computers as you want. It doesn't even require an installation. If I could land such customers 20+ years ago with PS 5.5 which I STILL use sometimes, it proves that YOU DO NOT NEED the latest gimmick in order to be creative. Its the artist, not the tool. The tool certainly helps, but don't give the "modern versions" more credit than they deserve.

Fun fact: adobe switched to a subscription model not because it made more money, but because subscriptions are taxed different and it lowered their tax bill.

When I cancelled Adobe suite and they forced the early cancellation fee at me I immediately blocked th card Actual scumbag company

Affinity, Final Cut Pro and Capture One got me away from Adobe forever

moved away permanently from adobe products , my clients also agree with this they're in the process of moving away from these criminals as well. adobe will have fun training their ai with poisoned images i left in cloud.

Few years back I found a sealed Adobe creative suite box at a thrift store. $3, with fully legal Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, After Effects etc. I was so glad. That's what I've been using ever since. Refused all of Adobe's cloud advances. Do not care what features they've added later on. As long as EXR support is present, I can work. With older software, I can go back all the way to Windows 7 if I want to, on older computers, and still have all of my tools. Will even work on 32-bit OS. What's not to love! I haven't had to buy anything else from Adobe ever and not going to. I know, that according to Adobe, people aren't supposed to use their old products. They want to dictate when you buy stuff, and I raise the middle finger to that. I bought my legal copies of software fair and square. It's all legal. I can show them my $3 receipt.

Freehand, flash, authorware and fireworks were amazing. Macromedia had better web technology and were in a position to dominate. Massive fail selling to Adobe.

Adobe have tried to buy Canva multiple times and after being rejected time and time again, they flat out copied them with Adobe Express.

So if you are under NDA for a project you are working on who is legally liable when Adobe scrapes that confidential content? Using Adobe products is now potential legal liability for the user.

That's why I sail the high seas.

Have always pirated their software, 50$ per month is absolutely not acceptable for what the software is. I now feel really great about it. Not only that, I keep the pirated adobe software running behind a firewall where it doesn’t have any internet access.

Software subscriptions are like living with an abusive partner. Everyday you come home expecting peace and tranquility but there's another letter with a whole new set of demands from her lawyer telling you what you must agree to or else. People have to get it into their heads that you can walk away and go through the pain of divorce and kicking abusive "partners" to the curb. Everyone, please stop with the Stockholm syndrome and the Adobe problem goes away.