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Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription rules

www.theregister.com Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription rules

Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results

Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription rules::Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results

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They bought Allegorithmic, put their Substance products behind a subscription, and discontinued Substance Painter's Linux release because it was inconvenient to their subscription model. Adobe can vanish off the face of the fucking earth for all I care.

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- Can we drop the Adobe executives into the ocean and make them pay for a subscription to a dinghy?
  
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  You're thinking too small!
  
  We sell them a cheaply made dinghy for a one-time payment with a 400% markup (it's okay, it has AI features)
  
  The lifetime license expires in a few days
  
  For continued support, we coerce them into a multi-tier subscription
  
  Tier 1 gets them access to some tape to fix the inevitable holes
  
  Tier 2 gets them a hand-operated pump
  
  Tier 3 gets them one (1) oar and a very nice hand-written letter to thank them for their trust and support
  
  Then I roll up to them in my libre motorboat and chuck them in the ocean because fuck them.
  
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You shouldn't be using any Adobe tools anymore given just how many alternatives each of their apps has:

https://justcreative.com/adobe-alternatives/

There are more than this as well. Let's get a list going!

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- None of the photo editing tools are very good relative to photoshop. Affinity photo is somehow both almost there and woefully short at the same time.
  
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  Krita feels very close to me but I can understand I'm barely a photoshop adept so there may be a lot of missing feature parity I don't know about.
  
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- Copying the image here, this seems like a decent and thorough list.
  
  The ones I recognize are Affinity stuff (got recommended by someone on lemmy a few months ago), Krita, Procreate, Blender, PDFx-change one
  
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  I want to use affinity so bad, but they don't make a Linux version. They actually seem kind of hostile to Linux.
  
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  Surprised Affinity Designer isn't under Ai?
  
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  Wasn't figma acquired by Adobe recently? Also, refering Hitfilm Pro for people looking for an alternative for After Effects is just a joke.
  
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- Free- Inkscape and Gimp
  
  Paid- Canva and Procreate
  
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  But Gimp is absolutely terrible. Inkscape is amazing, on the other hand. A real testament what to what GIMP should be.
  
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"Somebody still uses Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign?" – I am using Affinity since 2016 ... and saved more than 4K € subscription costs. 🤑

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- Let me know when they have a Linux version.
  
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  I mean Adobe doesn't either
  
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  A VM does the job. For me as a Manjaro user at home have no problems with flexibility. And as an Apple Mac User at work there can't be more suffering. 😜
  
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  Have you heard of a VM? They're pretty useful
  
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Get bent adobe.

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Good.

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Adobe acrobat has 3 tiers Free which is useless Acrobat which has 90% of everything you'll ever need except for that one time you'll need to censor a portion of the document which is only available in

Acrobat pro which is another 10$ a month on top of regular acrobat (20$ a month) and offers literally 2 extra features that previously were not separated.

Or you can change the highlighter to black and use that instead.

Fuck Adobe.

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- Or you can change the highlighter to black and use that instead.
  
  If you distribute that PDF, users will be able to search, highlight, and copy "highlighted" text, no problem.
  
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  Realize this but my companies solution was to just print that version and scan back in the resulting version which cannot be undone. Stupid and wastful but saved us from buying a ton of Adobe licenses.
  
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CFO and executive veep Dan Durn

What, “vice president” is too long, but VP too short?

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- Veep is shorter than VP if you count syllables
  
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A long time ago I would’ve said Adobe was the best. Now all I see is greed and evil.

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Well deserved!

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Good

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Warning who?

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- Their lower level employees. Despite record profits and despite the fact that these decisions are mandated by C-suite executives, these fines will “require” layoffs to appease the shareholders.
  
  They could just accept that their practices are corrupt and actually change, but that’s not as easy as just laying off several thousand of the ordinary workers who do most of the work.
  
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This is the best summary I could come up with:

Adobe has revealed it may have to fork out "significant monetary costs or penalties" as a result of a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation of its subscription cancellation practices.

President of digital media David Wadhwani celebrated record numbers of new commercial subscriptions for Adobe Creative Cloud.

Adobe's filing reveals that the regulator is considering its actions regarding "our disclosure and subscription cancellation practices relative to the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act."

That Act, as explained by law firm Hinch Newman LLP, means outfits that offer subscription services must never:

Adobe's filing reveals that in November 2023, FTC staff "asserted that they had the authority to enter into consent negotiations to determine if a settlement regarding their investigation of these issues could be reached."

But it's warned investors that defending the matter – or paying fines if it can't do so – could cost it enough to "have a material impact on our financial results and operations."

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