Adobe sued by FTC for hard-to-cancel subscriptions | Adobe Early Termination Fees

Adobe has always charged insane fees as a tactic if you cancel your Creative Cloud service early. The federal government has taken notice. #adobe, #waveform clips,

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I got served an ad for Photoshop on this video.

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European here. I don't understand why Adobe is being singled out.
1. It is a yearly subscription. What is unclear about "yearly"? You are entering a contract with 12-month commitment. Yearly means explicitly "for one year". Why would you expect to be able to cancel a one-year contract after just a few months? Adobe hands you a present by giving you 50% off for the commitment you committed to, but want to reneg on.
2. Adobe renews a yearly contract with another year. There are other contracts that do this, right? If that is perfectly normal to do in the US, then why specifically call Adobe out on this? Maybe because Adobe is used by consumers, and the cost is relatively high? This feels like a popularity contest, and not a reasonable lawsuit.
3. Why is nobody talking about THE ACTUAL REASONS that Adobe is doing this? Which is the blatant lack of consumer protections in the US? Adobe is doing what other companies are surely also doing, and won't stop doing. Why don't Americans demand:
3a. Demand that (for consumers) a contract with fixed commitment explicitly states: "Minimum contract term: x months" (bonus: demand that only special cases, e.g. that require infrastructure investment are allowed more than 12 months, any other "normal" contract for consumers is not allowed more than 12 months for initial contract term)
3b. Demand that IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL to "automatically renew" for more than 1 month after initial contract term! The "automatically renewing" is what is causing these things to be hard to cancel after the first year. Why is this allowed for consumers?
3c. Demand that any contract is "just as easy to cancel, as it is to signup". This makes not only difficult cancellation process for Adobe go away, but ANY OTHER CONTRACT TOO, such as gym memberships, etc.
Why are American consumers so happy to let companies treat them like this? Adobe is just one example, there is literally all other businesses that consumers need, that will happily keep doing what they're doing, even if the Adobe suit is successful. Which is likely won't be, because there should be explicit laws against what it's doing, BUT THERE AREN'T ANY.

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at this point its just endless greed. they should make the base software free for personal use, and charge for AI features per month. plenty of people want to use adobe for the core features which have existed for well over a decade. yeah I get there' minor tweaks and whatnot, but they can still offer an offline version with an annual upgrade fee of not more than $40. They're literally begging for piracy at this point.