Adobe: A Disgusting, Criminal Company

Hello everybody and welcome to Bull Technology. It’s no secret that I don’t like Adobe, and over the years I have slowly weaned myself off of using their terrible products. From the outrageous subscription scheme, to the unbelievable levels of bloat, to the utter brokenness of their applications, I had just had enough, and am now happily content using Affinity Photo and Final Cut Pro. But recently Adobe has once again been in the headlines for yet another egregious business practice, and I feel it is appropriate to make this video. So today we will enumerate all the horrific corporate chicanery Adobe has pulled over the years, and cover the recent controversy. And hopefully by the end of this video, Adobe’s stock price will have dropped by a couple points.
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[bull_technology]

8:10, For some reason the image got deleted quoting the terms of service. My apologies!

[based]

pirating adobe products is morally correct

[gandalfwiz]

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

[thereapersperch]

A subscription fee for a software tool is a joke. For someone who wants to edit photos a few times a year it's a total rip off. Imagine if you had to pay a monthly subscription fee to use a hammer or a screwdriver or a drill.

[esstx]

Make applications more stable, faster, improve performance ❌
Make useless AI, shuffle and rename items in context menu, add sloooow welcome screen ✅

[Nordern]

When I cancelled Adobe suite and they forced the early cancellation fee at me I immediately blocked th card
Actual scumbag company

[TOracle]

If people stopped giving Adobe money, and donated a fraction of that money to GIMP, Krita, and Inkscape, we'd have world class Open Source alternatives that everyone can use, and no company could take away from us.

[doniherald]

If adobe think taking people intellectual property(artwork) for free is legal, then taking adobe intellectual property(software) for free is also legal.

[syvulpie]

Artist: "Finally finished my work!"
Adobe: "You mean OUR work?

[ian_b]

I refuse to use "software as a service" for simple practical reasons; I don't know what my financial situation may be in the future, and if I had to cancel the subscription then any files I've created with it become useless. It means I have to pay what amounts to a ransom to unlock the data I created in the past. That just is not acceptable to me.

[pixelfodder]

Adobe have tried to buy Canva multiple times and after being rejected time and time again, they flat out copied them with Adobe Express.

[DragonRidingHood]

Doesn’t help that Adobe is “industry standard” and taught in literally every school. I also remember my lecturers saying that if we didn’t have a legitimate copy of the softwear we couldn’t enter our work into competitions because they’d know from the meta data that you weren’t using a legit version, while at the same time offering NO ALTERNATIVE.

[Thingwithlegs]

I was permanently banned from the Adobe community forum because of flagging a crashing bug in Illustrator. All IT staff is in the same office as moderators. No appeal possible, 100% gaslighting.

[alunlloyd]

I urge everyone to not use adobe products. Not even to pirate them. The less the industry relies on them the sooner correct changes will be made. I've been loving using the Affinity suite and Davinci resolve for video work. Short of Adobe being the industry standard they're just better products, less prone to crashes too

[clcgpeu]

Dont touch anything using "the cloud"

[cmdesign]

it’s like telling me as an artist they want me to rent their paintbrush

[enilenis]

Few years back I found a sealed Adobe creative suite box at a thrift store. $3, with fully legal Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, After Effects etc. I was so glad. That's what I've been using ever since. Refused all of Adobe's cloud advances. Do not care what features they've added later on. As long as EXR support is present, I can work. With older software, I can go back all the way to Windows 7 if I want to, on older computers, and still have all of my tools. Will even work on 32-bit OS. What's not to love! I haven't had to buy anything else from Adobe ever and not going to.

I know, that according to Adobe, people aren't supposed to use their old products. They want to dictate when you buy stuff, and I raise the middle finger to that. I bought my legal copies of software fair and square. It's all legal. I can show them my $3 receipt.

[Jenny_Digital]

A lot of people don’t realise that when a product gets wrapped as a service, there’s another catch, that you are on the latest version and you have no choice. If the latest version breaks something that matters to you, TOUGH!!

[janbarsk]

As a teacher at a British International school, my situation is a bit different from those professionals who have been using Adobe's applications for creating and publishing artwork and articles and so on. Still, I might have something of interest to say:
Like "Bull Technology" who makes this YouTube channel I felt insulted when Adobe switched to the subscription model. I decided that from now and on I would - as much as possible - only teach free apps. I went for GIMP instead of Photoshop and Inkscape instead of Illustrator. When it comes to video editing, I realised that Blender can do the job apart from all other stuff it can do.
On a related note, I also would have liked to throw out everything Microsoft replacing it with Linux as platform and LibreOffice instead of Word-Excel-PowerPoint and database, but that would have upset the routines for the rest of the school outside of computing teaching.
With Blender - great free tool by the way - and GIMP and Inkscape I have done what I can at my school to set the kids, my computer teacher colleague and myself free. I would recommend these apps to anyone else out there as well. Also, again, don't forget about Linux and LibreOffice.
Hugs to everyone who loves software freedom from a Swedish guy teaching computing in China.

[rakeshadhikari]

The problem is that adobe products are industry standard. You cant get a job without knowing them because mass people use their products only. You become irrelevant and also cross platform project collaboration is tedious. Their own product ecosystem also works like apple. You have to use adobe products to cross link files.