I will hold on to my activation-free fully-offline Photoshop CS3 until the day Win32 finally dies. Still using it daily with an equally-old Wacom tablet to clean up all my flatbed scans :)
Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
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Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#12Does this only relate to things you put into their cloud, or does Photoshop now upload your offline files to Adobe servers as well?
By the way, it's always morally correct to pirate Adobe software for personal use. Which also allows you to fully firewall it because it no longer needs to talk to the activation server.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#13If you're still using Adobe's products, stop. Better late than never. Adobe had some great products. Then they over charged for them. Then they required a "cloud" subscription. There are alternatives. Support one of the startups or open source projects that are competing with them. Don't give Adobe another cent.
Adobe: the golden goose that wouldn't die, but just festers on.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#14I am guessing this needs to be taken with a grain of salt since the author did not get a reply from Adobe. Doesn’t look like they bothered to get it either.
As I am reading it, this should not affect NDA work.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#15I replaced photoshop with photopea a while ago. I only use it for light work, but it’s the lowest friction alternative I’ve tried that runs on Linux.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#16> The user agreement also leaves open the possibility to train AI using user-generated content, saying they can use the content they retrieve to “improve our Services and Software“.
They’re double dipping like a lot of these companies. Pay for the service, and use your human made content as valuable training data Or with something like Reddit use ads to make money then sell api access to human content
It's interesting that they are so hungry for training data that they would seek access to people's half finished photoshop files.
I'm reminded of what just happened to google: this seems as effective a strategy as training an LLM on reddit shitposts.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#17Does this only relate to things you put into their cloud, or does Photoshop now upload your offline files to Adobe servers as well? By the way, it's always morally correct to pirate Adobe software for personal use. Which also allows you to fully firewall it because it no longer needs to talk to the activation server.
It's only for people nutty enough to use their cloud services like Behance. And I agree with your second point.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#18Unexpectedly fantastic news! My wife makes extensive use of the adobe PDF editing tools, which is has been a major blocker for getting her onto linux. What is a good replacement that works on windows and linux? Non-free is fine.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#19Unexpectedly fantastic news! My wife makes extensive use of the adobe PDF editing tools, which is has been a major blocker for getting her onto linux. What is a good replacement that works on windows and linux? Non-free is fine.
I can't answer windows/linux, but I use pdfexpert.com for mac and it's great. It was a one time $100 charge when I bought it several years ago, and it gets updated regularly.
Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
#20The amount of illegal probing of my computers regardless of ToS has made me extremely uncomfortable.