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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'

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Post by norwalkbear »

shrubble wrote: post #44

I remember a number of years ago getting a cheap 1-year Lightroom susbscription as part of a promo. Got it installed, loaded up a few photos. Then went back to the directory to load the photos in a different program for comparison. The photos were deleted from my hard drive! They were loaded into Lightroom's cloud service, and without my knowledge or permission (and I was using the just-installed defaults) it had del…

People thought I was crazy to write my own guide image editing mini apps in c# .net years ago for image editing in game dev.

I'm not so crazy anymore

Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'

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Post by longerd2 »

walteweiss wrote: post #38
southernplaces7 wrote: post #37

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> A racist? Do you even know what a race is? Is Russian a race now, huh?

In other words: "I'm not racist, I don't categorize by race. Do you even know what a race is? You have categorized Russians wrongly. It is part of a race, not it's own one..."

Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'

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Post by lancesells »

20after4 wrote: post #2

If 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.

I went a very long time not using Adobe's products but I hit a wall when I went to do some motion-based projects. What's the After Effects alternative?

Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'

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Post by anal_reactor »

hjkl0 wrote: post #21
grishka wrote: post #12

Does 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.

By pirating, you mean running modified binaries from unknown sources? Morals aside, how is that safe, secure, or even convenient?

>be me

>"Google wants to know your location"

>fuck off you already know it anyway

>"Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device? PiratedGameFromRussianTorrents.exe"

>ok

The biggest problem with piracy is the entry barrier. You need to know what sites are safe, what aren't. Also, Google hides results from torrent sites, so yeah, it's kind of an underground club. If you're a newbie you're going to get ransomware, if you know the basics it's trivial. Piracy isn't as popular as 10 years ago, but it's still there, mostly powered by poor countries.

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Post by walteweiss »

longerd2 wrote: post #52
walteweiss wrote: post #38

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> A racist? Do you even know what a race is? Is Russian a race now, huh? In other words: "I'm not racist, I don't categorize by race. Do you even know what a race is? You have categorized Russians wrongly. It is part of a race, not it's own one..."

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Post by noman-land »

Lammy wrote: post #34
iLoveOncall wrote: post #31

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> Haven't had any problems so far. That you know of. For all you know you could be infected and part of a botnet. Viruses don't open a big popup saying "haha you've been hacked!". This line of thinking is extremely common and absolutely nonsensical. The point of a virus is to remain undetected.

> undetected If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

If a tree falls in the forest and kills someone but no one around to be sad, did they really die?

Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'

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Post by havilland »

20after4 wrote: post #2

If 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.

I wouldn’t even look at startups if there is a viable open source alternative. Most startups are just looking to get a big enough user base to get bought by the big players.

Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'

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Post by antifa »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #31
grishka wrote: post #27

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I've been doing it all my life. I've literally never paid for a software license, I don't know any better. In general, I usually download from reputable sources. Haven't had any problems so far.

> Haven't had any problems so far. That you know of. For all you know you could be infected and part of a botnet. Viruses don't open a big popup saying "haha you've been hacked!". This line of thinking is extremely common and absolutely nonsensical. The point of a virus is to remain undetected.

A botnet that shows no evidence of saturating my CPU, RAM, disk, network? OK fine then.

Most malware these days does things like demand bitcoin, popup ads, or upload your files to the cloud without your consent.

If I've actually unknowingly downloaded a virus, it's honestly less malevolent than the paid version.

Re: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'

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Post by grishka »

walteweiss wrote: post #50
grishka wrote: post #41

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> You understand the copyright, but you don’t respect it. That’s the idea.

I understand stupid ideas, but I'm not required to respect them. Make the copyright last 3 years instead of an eternity, or make copyright holders pay an exponentially increasing tax, per copyrighted work, to extend it every year, then I'll reconsider.

> You’re okay with having your Photoshop, but for free.

Yes I am. Proudly. Why should I care? Adobe won't sell me a subscription even if I wanted one, btw. Because I'm Russian.

If I were into making compromises to prove things, I'd be using desktop Linux.

And Adobe isn't a small startup struggling to make ends meet. They would've still been profitable even if no one paid for their products for personal use and their only paying customers were businesses.

> As Russia is a democratic country indeed. And that is the way of overthrowing a dictator, voting against him on the next ballot. Doing anything else is futile, obviously.

I'm open to suggestions. You can also come here and try to overthrow him yourself if you think we're doing such a poor job of it. I'll be sure to take a picture of you getting arrested.

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