1 yr. ago • 100%

So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem.

I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until Adobe, and therefore my job, required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn't the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

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Firefox @lemmy.ml So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem.

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I feel like Adobe is one of the pioneers for DRM lol, They've always kept all their things under some kind of paywall.

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Adobe reactivated my subscription without my permission and now won’t refund me. They have records of my subscription being cancelled in May but can’t explain why I was suddenly billed again in August.

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This is seriously deserving of an antitrust investigation. An open web is essential.

*Edit: referring to Chrome and its derivatives, not Adobe. Alphabet/Google has been begging for antitrust action for years.

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What's extra stupid about these, is most of the time just using a user agent switcher to make the site think you're on chrome or opera makes it work just fine.

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The NHS' virtual appointment service in the UK doesn't support Firefox either, only Chrome, Safari and Edge. The dark days of "please view this website in Internet Explorer 6" are creeping closer to the present again. I hate the modern internet.

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I hate them more for pioneering Software as a Service rent seeking crap. Why own software when you can become a revenue stream for Adobe. Die in a fire.

This is crap too tho.

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"We can't track you using this browser. Please use one of the following that we have agreements with."

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I don't understand why Adobe was allowed to survive as a company when Flash player had like 500 security vulnerabilities daily.

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Could you just get an extension that changes your user agent? They exist. I wonder if it would work.

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Adobe has been on the DRM bandwagon since forever.

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Last Adobe product I used was CS6. That's what the company stuck with, presumably, to avoid shit like this.

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You could use a user agent switcher to pretend that you are running chrome, edge or anything else

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Go Affinity/Serif. Haven't looked back.

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So the inevitable future begins. This will be the standard web very soon.

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This is honestly why I have more then two browsers installed. But it is sad this DRM stuff is spreading.

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What happens if you spoof the user agent?

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Oh, this shit again.

Remember when websites required the Internet Explorer? It didn't follow Web Standards back then.

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What in the actual fuck is this, thank you for bringing this up I will never use an Adobe product ever

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Thankfully I am not required to use any Adobe products. Seeing this would seriously insult me.

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Digital RESTRICTIONS management / DRM is the core of Adobe

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@galaxi What version of FF are you using? I can access Adobe Express perfectly fine (116.0.1 on Win 11 Pro)

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What are people using to edit/sign PDFs. Adobe is a nightmare and I’d rather use anything else

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If safari is supported, then there is no reason to not supporting Firefox. What key features supported by safari required by adobe that's not supported by Firefox?

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I've run into multiple websites like this in the last 6 months. It sucks.

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User-agent switcher to get around it?

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I got in on the Kickstarter for the Abode (not a misspelling) software suite by Stuart Semple and am hoping that when they release that it at least beats Darktable. Also, Darktable is pretty great as a free alternative to Lightroom.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools

Edit: I named him because he created the Freetone color palette when Pantone upped their license fee on Adobe. He also made a few paints and sells them at reasonable prices as an accessible alternative to more expensive paints.

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https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/mozilla-firefox/246039/tip-use-firefox-for-web-apps

I haven't tried this yet, and the page is from 2021. Perhaps the feature is still experimental or lost. Otherwise I use chromium to avoid the Google bloat.

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They've been on the DRM bandwagon ever since they started making people log into their apps.

For an admin, their license management crap takes so much extra time and effort that it's not tolerable. They're just not good people.

Adobe is a curse word where I come from.

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You don't need windows for edge/chrome though, what's stopping you just using edge or chrome on Linux?

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Get !affinity@lemmy.ml

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the only thing I'll accept using one of those browsers for is installing a new OS on my phone, as ff just does not support that. aside from that, idc

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