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Adobe Promises That It Hasn’t Gone Full Big Brother (slate.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (20 children)

Guys, seriously. The entire Affinity Suite is $150. Paid for updates through the current version. It's solid.

Dump Adobe.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (3 children)

claims that the company often uses machine learning to review user projects for signs of illegal content

OK, so what happens when Florida starts deciding more content is illegal?

Literally big brother shit.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Riiiight. And, pray tell Adobe, why in the everloving fuck woul you ever need to "review" private content that's not posted anywhere? Stop acting like you're the goddamned pre-crime agency from Minority Report and keep your dirty paws off stuff people are creating privately.

You are providing tools, and that's it. I can do horrible, illegal shit with my drill, but it doesn't give Black&Decker any right to break into my house to do random checks and see if I'm drilling through kneecaps instead of wooden planks...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Well, let's have the adobe track record speak for itself...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Okay, I promise the did go big brother.

So what now, my word against theirs?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Big Brother? No. Not yet anyway.

Abusive in other ways? Let Uncle Louis tell you all about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxMCm941WA

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

“We obviously have tight security around any form of access to customers content.”

https://scotthelme.co.uk/the-adobe-hack/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

adobes promises are meaningless. you are now their product

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Because when someone presents you a lengthy document. One that describes all the ways they claim ownership of your work (and work in progress) - in detail - it only matters how much they really mean what's written down? Let me spare you the sarcasm and just say this doesn't communicate the professionalism professionals are demanding. Quite the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Every time we trusted a large tech promise on an unverifiable claim, they ended up shafting us. Just sayin'.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Not yet, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm betting the reason they want access to "moderate" your projects is to train their AI. Literally looking to steal artists work before it's out the door.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Oh, if they PROMISE.

Fuck Adobe. I’ll pirate PS and AI until I die. Greedy fucking pigboys.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Pirating Adobe software is exactly what they want you to do. Their business model relies on businesses paying for their license because people already know how to use their software, in large part because people pirate it, and also they have deals with schools to teach their software.

What Adobe actually doesn't want you to do is to learn the software of their competition, since that's how they will lose money in the long term.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

That 15 yr old cracked CS5 I have on an old hard drive is looking mighty scrumptious right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Does the PS pirate version have the Ai stuff, removal features and such?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It won't have anything that relies on "the cloud"

When you use the AI services in Photoshop, it tries to connect to their servers. But to crack Photoshop, you need to blacklist all those servers. If you try to, say, use the automatic background removal tool, Photoshop will give you a message saying that it will run the (worse) version locally because it can't connect.

Not that I'd know or anything. A friend of a friend told me. Basically a stranger. Don't even know his name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right, Since it can’t call home, the advanced features will not work or at least not work as described, is that correct?