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Why artists are upset with Adobe’s new terms of service | TechCrunch Minute
Photoshop users received an unpleasant surprise this week that Adobe’s new terms of service allows the company to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods”. While it’s true that when we use cloud services, we sacrifice a certain amount of privacy, Photoshop is used by many professional artists for their livelihoods — and they…
@phoenixr6811
June 7, 2024 at 11:51 am
Not good 🙄 you not paying for social media sites and get that they can use whatever you post. But are paying for Adobe seems like they are reaching on this on. And it’s always the artists 🤔they do this too
@juanvaladez5703
June 7, 2024 at 1:41 pm
Can we file a class action lawsuit?
@galib1992ict
June 7, 2024 at 2:07 pm
Time to swicth to Affinity Desinger
@honest9259
June 7, 2024 at 2:11 pm
Adobe should go down in history. Monopolies are destroying market, products and progress.
@thedoctor7158
June 7, 2024 at 2:39 pm
I don’t use their cloud to store anything. I want clarification if they mean only the cloud or what I am actually working on locally. If locally, I’ll gladly spend the time setting my art drawing monitor up to use different software and delete Adobe from my system and put a block to all adobe sites in my hosts file.
@AndreaAlbcai
June 8, 2024 at 2:14 am
I thinks they can access locally as well, beacuse they use your internet to prove youre using the paid version of the software, so as soon as we are connected to the internet, they, sadly, will have full access to out content 🙁
@solonepeon5805
June 7, 2024 at 2:48 pm
Do not allow them because they are using Ai to steal your work/data & they will sell that to companies.
@fizbopallanut
June 7, 2024 at 3:38 pm
Torrent a legacy copy of PS, scan against any viruses and be done with this BS
@Jack_Warner
June 8, 2024 at 2:05 pm
I’m using 2024. OK so I can’t update it, but it’s fine. If you scan it for viruses, they will be false positives.
@serenitytrek
June 7, 2024 at 5:40 pm
Stop ✋️ Being Used! Don’t buy products that monitor you. Stop paying “subscriptions.” Unplug.
@rkulla
June 7, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Just cancelled my adobe subscription. It was the 9.99/mo “photography plan”. They need to know people won’t bat an eye to replace them. At least it let me cancel and even delete apps without any issue. I’ve been wanting to try something more simple like Capture One or similar. Anyone have any recommendations?
@sprintalfonsi
June 8, 2024 at 3:14 am
Affinity photo very similar
@boxfox2945
June 7, 2024 at 11:07 pm
Google already does. Everything with Google hard wired, like android. Is basically a Google hacker’s spy service. Stop using apps.
@Ricardofox12
June 8, 2024 at 1:25 am
More reasons to sail the seven seas
@HollywoodCameraWork
June 8, 2024 at 3:48 am
Another switcher here. Spent a few days replicating my workflow in Affinity Photo/Design (50% off right now), and DaVinci Resolve. Honestly, they’re better than Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere, and I refused to switch for probably a decade. Man, Adobe’s software has become slow and buggy. Will be canceling Creative Cloud in a few days. Thanks for getting me out of my lethargy.
@LV4EVR
June 10, 2024 at 4:48 pm
Same here, exactly. Held on to CS6 until Affinity released v2, then switched 100%. And, after getting used to it, I much prefer DaVinci Resolve over PP+AE.
@thecanticleofcrom4787
June 8, 2024 at 6:38 am
They sell data, marketing and engagement software products but cannot understand their own customers. The fact data harvesting is enabled by default is a ploy that should be regulated…they can scrape everything before you get to disable it. Utter scam from yet another soulless shareholder driven money harvester. Sad that greed stifles even common courtesy, let alone destruction of innovation and a void in what should be meaningful interactions.
@JCcreates927
June 8, 2024 at 11:20 am
I cancelled my account again. I only had it for a month this time.
@Cotictimmy
June 8, 2024 at 11:31 am
I decided not to continue with Adobe when they changed to the subscription model a few years back. It seemed like they were becoming the bad guys.
@LV4EVR
June 10, 2024 at 4:53 pm
Yep. 100% refused to *_rent_* software. Glad I made the move when I did.
@Marksman3434
June 8, 2024 at 1:50 pm
Good thing I’ve been pirating all my Adobe products for over a decade now and never used their cloud service. Now I’ve got even more reason to keep on sailing 😄
@andrzejdemski5980
June 8, 2024 at 3:31 pm
Not a chance in hell that adobe will bend the neck to roll it back. They will never return to standalone functioning model of their software, cloud has rotten through the fabric of most if not all their products.
Icon miniatures can be generated within users’ cloud cache space using dedicated workers running in user/tenant context, but that would require adobe not being %%$$&&# with $^$%%&&@ from ##$*^% wallets.
@Ashystar067
June 8, 2024 at 7:17 pm
Perfectly concise. I turned a 10-minute rant off for this. Thank you!
@helian_art3068
June 8, 2024 at 7:35 pm
well you can say the same about win 11 new AI with its photographic “mind”
@LV4EVR
June 10, 2024 at 4:50 pm
And that’s why I’m free from Adobe and (hopefully) will soon be free from Windows. Shame, because I loved both, and we go *_way_* back. Breaking up is hard to do.
@GrubbJunker
June 9, 2024 at 12:45 am
Finally, the fabled “Pay to have your shit stolen” business model.
So, suppose you’re in the middle of some sensitive work. If you want to remove said work from Adobe to use, say, Davinci Resolve, you have to accept. But if it’s sensitive data, you can’t accept or you’ll possibly be breaking an NDA. Did I get that right?
@robwin0072
June 9, 2024 at 1:29 am
Try something new. We have used GIMP for the past seven years. No complaints.
@matthewfusaro2590
June 9, 2024 at 4:00 am
I am an Adobe user but I don’t save anything to their cloud services, so I can care less if they access my files on the cloud. But does this mean they have the right to access my personal computer? That’s where I draw the line.
@ernsteskelsen2845
June 10, 2024 at 7:09 pm
Don’t forget that all things you do in Photoshop has a backup in cloud. So it really doesn’t matter if you’re saving on your computer or not.
@pryzmmagick2384
June 9, 2024 at 7:40 am
I quit using the overpriced proprietary commercial programs over 10 years ago. There are open source alternatives, such as, Krita, Blender 3D Suite, and Inkscape. They’ve each come a long way and can get better with more input from artists, devs, and anyone that donates money and other resources. Also, Gimp has made much improvement since its humble beginning. Open Source can set you free, and is a blessing to any artists, animators, and other creative people who can’t afford pricey apps with limiting and intrusive license agreements. And if they help themseves to your content when AI bots make pictures, we ought to wonder if they are programmed to take from the internet and devices connected to it. We need to protect our creative rights regardless of what image production programs we use, as well as, what we rely on to store our files.
@3pcgi959
June 9, 2024 at 10:46 am
Adobe can see your data since you use Adobe. This is nothing new.
@theorize999
June 9, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Everyone who has used Adobe for the past ten years deserves this… they told you they were going to do you dirty the moment they went to subcription model. Use Affinity, duh.
@jonnymac1505
June 9, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Downloaded a trial of ON1 yesterday, migrated my lightroom catalogue and cancelled my sub with Adobe. Screw them!
@LV4EVR
June 10, 2024 at 4:49 pm
Curious, did you ever try darktable? I’d never heard of it until another comment suggested it. Looks good, but I haven’t really tested it…
@putinscat1208
June 9, 2024 at 2:09 pm
I hope whatever the F Adobe is doing generates more money than lost licenses.
@silversobe
June 9, 2024 at 3:02 pm
Use opensource software, corporate creeps will always turn into predatory villains eventually.
@Joel-kw7jf
June 9, 2024 at 5:05 pm
Thank god I’ve never updated to CC. Still using cracked CS6 since I was a student.
@AaronJacksonJS
June 9, 2024 at 10:18 pm
*IF YOU STILL USE ADOBE IN 2024, YOU ARE A MORON!* #thatisall
@TsukatsukiRio
June 10, 2024 at 1:06 am
I understand that when something is free, you are the product. But Adobe is built so different™️, they want both your money and data.
@AJ-HawksToxicFinger
June 10, 2024 at 1:14 am
Wow, it sure is a good thing they didn’t convince everyone years ago to stop working and storing the program locally…….
Oh wait… They have always been evil and this has always been the plan, and believe me they already look at people’s ‘art’.
@moneymanifestation9505
June 10, 2024 at 3:14 am
All of you complaining already gave permission years ago 😂😂how do you think the AI creative apps were born 😂
@ghazi.d
June 10, 2024 at 4:15 am
Exactly, and not just Adobe; some people still don’t know from where AI websites like midjourney and others obtain these photos for photo manipulation lmao; this has been going on for a long time; there has been no such thing as privacy since the beginning.
@epicrabid1857
June 10, 2024 at 4:25 am
The difference is permission, if you steal from someone, they can be held accountable if you ask permission then your just fudged. 😅 8 Don’t really car i haven’t been uploading most of my crap for yrs
@GrymmsPlace
June 10, 2024 at 6:24 am
Affinity 50% off – but recently acquired by Canva (cloud-based) so who knows if they will not follow Adobe’s crazed plan.
Adobe may ‘regret’ their current approach and walk back, but I do not believe that this would last and they would find some other way to con users in.
Another thing seen in the past. Companies changing what they do with data, but not letting their client-base find out till well after the fact. At some stage they then release an apology or explanation, but they already have the content (I do not believe any corporate is that stupid not to expect a backlash).
AI-content on any platform requires some way to ‘learn’, whether Microsoft, Adobe, Google, Apple, Meta, etc. Software ‘AI’ has been with us for years, only getting more ‘intuitive’ recently with the advances in chips and their systems. But they have to be able to learn (anyone watch Depp’s “Transcendence”, 2014)?
I am re-evaluating my association with Adobe, without a doubt, but I do not believe for a New York second that this cat is not well and truly out the bag, across the street, and has been pillaging the neighbourhood felines for a while now.
@LV4EVR
June 10, 2024 at 4:52 pm
I’m cautiously optimistic re: the Canva acquisition. At the moment, it _seems_ good. Still, with Affinity you *_own your software, you don’t RENT it._* And as of v2, it’s been amazing.
@CameronKiesser
June 10, 2024 at 9:46 am
I haven’t used Adobe in years. Use PaintDotNet, Gimp and Kdenlive. Free and easy to use. Of course movies and such require specialized stuff, but for most these work perfectly.
@DARTHKNOWS76
June 10, 2024 at 5:20 pm
i work for a large surf clothing brand. and this will have major legal ramifications. What about copyrighted , trademarked, registered , or patented graphics/designs. adobe shit the bed on this one. Say Nike has top secret designs they don’t want anyone to see but Nike staff, how will this work. since they use illustrator for pretty much all Design and they are crazy about security and copyrights intellectual property , etc.