Adobe faces FTC fines over subscription practices
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Adobe could face hefty fines related to its overly difficult and costly subscription cancellation practices due to an ongoing Federal Trade Commission Probe.

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.

    • distantsounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 个月前

      Can you get a semi current build of photoshop? Asking for a friend who is struggling with gimp and hasn’t sailed in ages…

        • GhostlyPixel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          10 个月前

          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.

        • distantsounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 个月前

          I just have to say that this is now my photoshop replacement without a doubt. Thank you so much for this! Completely changes everything for me 👍 👍

      • Wermhatswormhat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 个月前

        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.

        • distantsounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          10 个月前

          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.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 个月前

          Acrobat X started failing for me using that crack. Launches and immediately shuts down.