Baldur BjarnasonJan 4, 2023

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Show threadAlan BristowJan 4, 2023
@baldur @dave_rogers Adobe, purchased Macro Media, starved and then bordered FireWorks because it made Ps look like the bag of trash it is, and continue to make astoundingly slow software. Oh and PDFs are kryptonite for a11y and mobile, but Adobe insinuated PDF into governments and that war chest of $ allows them to wander around doing this stuff. RIP FireWorks
Show threadBaldur Bjarnason
@alan Don't forget the decade-long security disaster that were its poorly maintained browser plugins. And the ElcomSoft/Sklyarov trial. And the buggy nightmare DRM on its software suite.
Jan 4, 2023 at 1:04pmWeb
Show threadAlan BristowJan 4, 2023

@baldur Ah yes. That too, thank you!

PS typo “…starved and then ~bordered~ +murdered+ FireWorks…”