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

This is why you could and should never be lazy to search how to cancel subscription.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I saw this coming, with no easy way to cancel the monthly subscription and decided to pay with a prepaid credit card instead...glad I did, it saved me from getting robbed.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It’s so refreshing to actually have my tax dollars starting to fund consumer protection again.

If Trump gets in office again, it’s back to backsliding. Because apparently consumer protection is “big government” or some such shit.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Any corporation that does should just go bankrupt. Seriously, will you live fine without them? Of course. Will society continue to exist? Of course. Fuck these fucking scums.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I decided to try out the new version about a year ago. I had a monthly charge of about $26 I think it was. After about 3-4 months and not really using it, I cancelled a few days before it would renew for another month. $50 early cancellation fee? Wtf do you need to cancel a few mins before or it's early cancellation? Adobe fucking sucks ass.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

That’s the trick, it’s always early cancellation, there is no allowed time to stop sending them money.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cancelation fees (and steep ones at that) on digital goods/"services" ... shows how far things sunk towards the lower hells.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember when Adobe was a cool company that built art tools. Now it seems like the art tools are an afterthought, tacked onto a money-siphoning scheme.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance... Is there anything they've ever bought they haven't slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a good point. I gotta be honest, I'd forgotten that Adobe bought Photoshop.

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[–] [email protected] 238 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

these cocksuckers were charging my 70-yr-old computer-illetrate mom nearly $80 a month because "she wanted to be able to open pdf on her laptop", and then once I found out and tried to cancel this pro subscription which she had, they forced us to pay a $200 cancelation fee which amounts to 50% of the remaining months until the end of the year. Adobe came pre installed and all she did was click on yes, yes, yes after the triall period finished. It's a predetory behavior from a scummy company. I will never forgive them for this.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How did it get her credit card info if she only clicked "yes" boxes? Or was it linked to some other payment system that was set up on her system somehow (MS or Apple App Store or something)?

[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago (5 children)

she told my sister who is also very stupid when it comes to computers to put it. I wish I was making this up

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nestle and Adobe, on my special list.

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

This gives warm and fuzzy feelings.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Over the barrel, please.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I've been on the verge of cancelling my subscription for multiple times now. But everytime I try an alternative it's missing something (for instance capture one mobile does not do masks/layers...), and so I keep shipping shitloads of money to a company which has dickass privacy rules and extorts you out of money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Depending on what you're doing, Krita is worth a look. I gave it a go for cropping and lightly editing some photos recently, and then tried their version of the clone stamp tool. It's hidden under the brushes presets, but worked better than the Photoshop tool 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Just know that Canva bought Affinity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Time to pay for cracks

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

That's why I'm a pirate matey

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

It doesn't help Adobe has software patents for their products, so anyone who makes a similar program has to either live in a country that doesn't recognize the "right" to claim you invented math, or be risk being sued.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I’m a big fan of Affinity Photo and Illustrator. I switched when Adobe went to the subscription model. It’s very similar, and they have full tutorials on Vimeo for anything that works differently. It’s definitely worth the $20.

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

That looks great. It's mostly a Photoshop replacement right? I'm also looking for something to replace Lightroom, with the same amount of functions on desktop as on iPad. Any recommendations?

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

I think Affinity Photo is their lightroom replacement: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/

Edit: I don’t think there’s a mobile version

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

With mobile I also meant iPad so they're good on that. To me "Photo" has a lot of Photoshop abilities (drawing, pencils, etc.) while it lacks, or seems to lack, some Lightroom functions (categorizing, overview of photos, ratings, etc.). But maybe I haven't looked at it good enough. It's certainly a good option to replace photoshop for me, because I don't use most functions of photoshop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It works great on iPad, but it doesn’t store and organize.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/affinity-photo-2-for-ipad/id1616823773

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As a “prosumer” photographer (I do semi-pro landscape photography mostly, with a little astrophotography as a hobby when the sky is clear enough), I’ve been really happy with Affinity Photo over the Adobe suite. Definitely recommend. I just hope they keep their quality up since being bought out.

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[–] [email protected] 167 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My prayers are heard. I hope you burn in the lowest circles of hell, Adobe.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I assumed their HQ was moved there long ago.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Though many people call it "Utah"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this a random Utah slam, or did they move something to Utah? As far as I know they're still in San Jose

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They have a campus in Utah but their headquarters is in San Jose.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Shittycon valley vs Shittycon slopes. Might as well be the same thing.

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