Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes

At this rate my owned outright copy of Adobe that requires no internet access, with hacks, will become a generational heirloom I can pass down to descendants with immersurable value.

Holy Shitballs:

Sam Santala

Jun 5

Also, hilarious that I can't even get ahold of your support chat to question this unless I agree to these terms beforehand.

Jun 5

I can't even uninstall Photoshop unless I agree to these terms?? Are you fucking kidding me??

Jun 5

Realising I also need to agree to the terms if I want to sign in and cancel my subscription

16h

Can someone there give me an email for someone who can cancel my subscription without having to sign in and agree to these new terms first?

Same choice as normal: whine about and then tolerate a change you don't want in proprietary software rather than spend time learning to use a software-freedom-respecting alternative.

"But my workflow".

The question I'd like to ask them is WHY they want to get involved in Content Moderation. They make a toolset, nothing more, so why do they care what someone is using the tools for? What could they possibly get out of this that makes it worth the time or expense?

People complain now, but they'll renew their subscription. It's the same unhealthy relationship people have with Windows.

Ok, time to notify our design team not to use any Adobe products anymore and notify the commercial team to stop paying for licences.

Canceled my Adobe account in 2018 and they just keep on making my decision a better and better one. Thanks, Adobe!

Gee, yet another reason why mine is a Corel shop and we don't use Adobe for anything.

This is 100% because they are rolling out more AI features and they want the government to ban all open source competition because they aren't "safe".

Imagine getting banned from all of adobe just for drawing a dick with the brush tool in their expensive image editor.

Those reasons being stealing people's work for AI garbage.

Fuck Photoshop. Use Gimp and/or Krita.

Tell me you don't want money from NSFW artists without telling me.

Hard fucking pass.

Isn't Photoshop by a lot of big corporations. Why would they sign up to that? Or do they get an exemption that isn't available to private individuals?

If any large organizations want to make a large donation to Inkscape, GIMP, Krita and Blender that would be great.

Wild. My old place we relied on this despite me urging us to use Figma/Sketch and Blender (amazing for 2D art). Naturally logistics factored into it as our clients relied on Adobe as well, but there were plenty of projects that didn’t need it.

We also had the dumbest guidelines to ensure no leaks. I would routinely get app requests refused despite the fact their source was right there on GitHub.

So now what are they gonna do? Because if they use Adobe, they can no longer ensure that a clients work won’t hit the net. May not seem like much for small indie projects but if we snagged the next GTA or Valorant, you bet that would attract some serious lookiloos.

Not sure if a client would find “it wasn’t us it was Adobe” all that comforting!

I'll upload a shitton of nudes to adobe cloud and report them so a poor bloke has to review those

I recieved today an email from Affinity saying that their whole suite of softwares is 50% off.

I'm assuming more people will be migrating to either Affinity or FOSS.

I currently use FOSS but I also really love Affinity. Especially since it's a perpetual/lifetime license.

Can Adobe be used on a machine that's sandboxed / offline? That way you can do your projects while disconnected from their servers, once the project is complete, just move your files onto an external drive and away from Adobe access?

stirling-pdf it is then