cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057

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

  • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
    581·
    2 years ago

    “Whoa there!”

    Go fuck yourself with that fellow kids corporate speak. That pisses me off so much, way more than it probably should.

  • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
    34·
    1 year ago

    Are you kidding - they basically invented the problem. They were one of the first to move to the “rent your software” model way back when

  • nobeansplz@lemmy.ml
    22·
    1 year ago

    I have been removing Adobe from my life starting way back with Flash, long before it was discontinued. Then Acrobat and the final thing to go was when I switched to Affinity Photo and Designer and ditched Photoshop. It works every bit as well for me but I never was a Photoshop power user. For a long time the only company that showed up when I searched online to see if my email had been pwned was of course Adobe and that was over a decade ago.

  • frippa@lemmy.ml
    22·
    2 years ago

    Fuck Adobe, not supporting Linux, and now not even supporting Firefox, the once most used browser? Whoever pirates their crappy software deserves a statue.

          • wvstolzing@lemmy.ml
            4·
            2 years ago

            The pdf standard is open, though criminally bloated. Their pdf software (‘pro’ as well as the freemium ‘reader’ which looks like adware nowadays) is used only because it’s the most lenient with respect to files barely complying with the ‘standard’ – which includes things like application forms from government agencies.

            … that is, if they can be said to ‘own’ the pdf format, it’s only because they smeared it all over with their shit. A bit like how hippos mark their territory, I guess.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
                3·
                2 years ago

                Yup, I know Okular (KDE’s PDF tool) at least works. I don’t know if it works on Windows or macOS, but I’m sure there are other tools that do.

                • wanderingmagus@lemm.ee
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Thanks! I’ll look it up and try it out. Getting real tired of having to use shady web apps to get around something I have to do regularly as part of my job but for some unfathomable reason isn’t a default app on every computer where I work.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    I miss the days of Creative Suite. You know, when you can just buy the thing once and do whatever you want with it for the rest of your life?

    I actually miss the days of Macromedia even more. Those round icons with the weird typography are just timeless. Especially the Flash logo.

  • Catpuccino@lemmy.one
    15·
    1 year ago

    This is exactly why I switched from Photoshop to Affinity. It’s just as good and somewhat even better than PS and it’s a one time purchase forever. I will never look back.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    12·
    2 years ago

    This is the main issue with that web DRM “security” shit that Google is trying to push. They have such a great market share now that big websites can now afford to put a check “only for Chrome” losing a very small percentage of users

    • CuriousGoo@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      This very small percentage of users anyway would be privy to alternative to Adobe’s stack ?

      Concern will perhaps be mainly for getting new users on FF/other browsers from Chromium.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    12·
    1 year ago

    Adobe has been a constant frustration for me. I was having issues with Acrobat DC on Windows 10 and ended up having to uninstall the 64 bit version and installing the legacy 32 bit version in its place.

    I want to use something else for PDF editing but our company refuses to consider alternatives.

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 years ago

    Any software company that uses monthly subscriptions as their business model can fuck right off. Let us own what we buy.

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
      9·
      1 year ago

      That part makes me so mad. I get it if its a “Firefox doesn’t support all the webgl features chrome does” problem, but when its just “we said so, that’s why” its just absolute total bullshit

      • kiwi@lemmy.today
        1·
        1 year ago

        Just like snapchat on the Web. It works on Firefox until you want to sign in then it asks for a chromium browser

  • tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 years ago

    Adobe, a company which developed nothing but just bought off 3rd party software by acquiring the actual developing company, and stitched everything together somehow, like a Frankenstein’s Creature, and finally sold it as a service.

    Thank you, but no thank you.

    Same applies for Autodesk.

    • EonNShadow@pawb.social
      4·
      2 years ago

      Unfortunately they’re still a default app in the business world. Basically everyone at least uses Reader if only because it’s what people expect when they open a PDF.

  • finder@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    2 years ago

    Are we surprised that Adobe is doing this? Adobe is exactly who I would’ve suspected adapting this bullshit immediately.