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Use privacy.com and give them a temporary credit card. Close the card when you want to cancel. Is this ethical? You're not using the software anymore, so you're not getting something for nothing. Rather, you're avoiding paying something for nothing.
This won't stop Adobe from sending collections after you
AFAIK you only pay a cancellation fee if you want to cancel a subscription early (E.g. you booked a yearly plan and then cancel it a few months before renewal), which of course is legal. At some point there was the hack that you could switch your subscription to a offer they throw at you when you try to cancel, and then that counted as a new subscription, which you could cancel within the first 14 days. Not sure if t…
I did exactly that around 4 months ago. Luckily I subscribed using PayPal, so when Adobe charged me the cancellation fee I immediately contested it. My guess was that Adobe won’t bother to deal with a contested fee of around $100. They didn’t, so PayPal refunded me the fee. Edit: I replaced Photoshop with Pixelmator Pro, which is an excellent piece of software. Most other needs are covered by Sketch/Figma. Haven’t fo…
Hoo boy, do I have some bad news for you!
> Haven’t found a good Illustrator alternative yet, but didn’t look much.
I’m very happy with Affinity Designer
I did exactly that around 4 months ago. Luckily I subscribed using PayPal, so when Adobe charged me the cancellation fee I immediately contested it. My guess was that Adobe won’t bother to deal with a contested fee of around $100. They didn’t, so PayPal refunded me the fee. Edit: I replaced Photoshop with Pixelmator Pro, which is an excellent piece of software. Most other needs are covered by Sketch/Figma. Haven’t fo…
> Most other needs are covered by Sketch/Figma. Hoo boy, do I have some bad news for you! > Haven’t found a good Illustrator alternative yet, but didn’t look much. I’m very happy with Affinity Designer
AFAIK you only pay a cancellation fee if you want to cancel a subscription early (E.g. you booked a yearly plan and then cancel it a few months before renewal), which of course is legal. At some point there was the hack that you could switch your subscription to a offer they throw at you when you try to cancel, and then that counted as a new subscription, which you could cancel within the first 14 days. Not sure if t…
A few months ago it worked for me. I am in EU so IIRC they are legally required to let you cancel your contract for 14 days if you entered into it remotely (phone, internet etc). It seems like changing subscription plan counts as getting a new contract with Adobe.
*where i am at the moment, if i buy something in a shop i have 7 days to return it as i could have 'examined' the item there. Online, delivered, i get 30 days.
Empty shops, retailers, empty shops...I 'remote' purchase. But i do go looking first in your store...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is of course legal, but it's possible OP got deceived into an annual subscription when they thought it was monthly, as discussed 7 months back on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30222165
also been tricked by them. if some services did not lock pdfs to only be opened in adobe reader, there is no way I’d touch anything adobe. Hate these practices and their updater and installer is extremely intrusive! Someone should run a poll for most hated software providers..
1: https://github.com/abatsakidis/PDFDeSecure
2: https://www.google.com/search?q=remove%20pdf%20copy%20protec...
3: https://github.com/wilfredwee/wilfred-TILs/blob/master/comma...
Worked for me plus two others that I know of
I recently switched to Corel because they still sell perpetual licenses. On physical media. I won’t say it is as good or better than Adobe. Only that it is good enough for me at this time.
Depending on your needs, there is also Pixelmator Pro and (I just found it, haven’t used) Affinity Designer. Pixelmator Pro has all the features I missed from Photoshop and more. Both apps are not subscription based.
I first bought a copy of Corel in 1998. The version I bought this year — prefixed “2021” — is not all that different from how I remember the oldest one which I stopped using around 2010.
For me, that’s a feature. The hammer has a familiar handle, and my nails haven’t changed much.
Benign neglect provides stability. Particularly in regards to user interface.
When it comes to my creative tools, I am the slow part of the loop now that computers are so well resourced.
I mean I’ve gone from a PIII with 128mb of RAM and 320 mb of spinning rust to four cores hypertheadeed, 8GB RAM + 4GB on the GPU with a two TB SSD.
But 300dpi and 32 bits are still the same. Basically what required a wait twenty-five years ago doesn’t because the new resources haven’t been consumed with new features.
Or slowed to the speed of the internet to ensure speed is an argument for upgrading.