Adobe becomes spyware

 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 09:18 UTC

Adobe becomes spyware
Image: CC BY 4.0 by cybrkyd | Spy guy: Emoji One


Adobe has recently updated their Terms of Use and a lot of creatives have been burned.

The updated terms require users to grant Adobe unlimited access to their active projects as well as allow for automated scanning of user-generated content under the guise of screening for illegal content.

Some of Adobe’s vast user base has not warmed to these changes and a clarification update was hastily issued on 06-June-2024 - A clarification on Adobe Terms of Use

If there was ever any doubt about the reach of Adobe, it has now been made as crisp and clear as their sharpening tool in Photoshop. Adobe products contain backdoors into your creative works which they can access at will. The way they have demonstrated this to their loyal users is by pushing out an update to their terms AND by not allowing any access to the applications until agreement is provided. Uninstalling is also impossible until agreement is provided.

I’m a Linux user but I still regularly use Photoshop on a Windows VM simply because Photoshop has no competition. I’m so used to it that everything else — even the best that open source has to offer — feels as if I’m using a toy in comparison. And I will continue to use Photoshop for my personal and professional projects.

I’ve been lucky. I’ve escaped the pop-up notification on my Photoshop 24.1.0 version only because my Windows 10 VM is not connected to the internet; a decision I made years ago. I now know the reason for that decision.

It might be a good time for us all to seriously consider replacing Photoshop with alternatives. I doubt, however, that many — including myself — ever will.

Some closing thoughts:

This is EXACTLY why some of us use pirate software.
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#Adobe #Photoshop

— cybrkyd (@cybrkyd) 06-June-2024