SwiftOnSecurityPopular opinion: Every Adobe executive should be dissolved in acid
Krutonium://@SwiftOnSecurity Proposition: Install your legal copy of CS6 and never let it go
e3ff0c@krutonium @SwiftOnSecurity You can tear my legally bought copy of Photoshop CS5 out of my cold, dead, hands. And I don’t even use it that often. Last time I transferred computers I had to figure out how to get the serial number out of the registry so I could get it to run on my new computer.
@e3ff0c @SwiftOnSecurity I only have CS3. I kept the packaging and everything but I've started just cracking it, since Adobe made it so I can't activate it. Fuck 'em.
That said I also use Linux so CS3 is actually a really good sweetspot.
(The following is preemptive)
The DMCA has an exception for modifying software for the purposes of interoperability, and also imo, what I am doing is entirely ethical.
Robert@e3ff0c @krutonium I like to use Belarc Advisor to get software serials easily when moving machines. If that’s any help to anyone. It exports a report listing the serials of installed software towards the bottom.
deFraid@SwiftOnSecurity acid is a bit too fast tbh
Michael ☕️@mcpinson @SwiftOnSecurity wooooord!
Lily Star@mcpinson @defred @SwiftOnSecurity
Reminds me of a joke:
Ma'am we regret to inform you that your husband has died at work today, he drowned in a vat of beer.
Oh no! Did he suffer much?
No ma'am, but he did get out twice to use the bathroom..
Reminds me of a joke:
Ma'am we regret to inform you that your husband has died at work today, he drowned in a vat of beer.
Oh no! Did he suffer much?
No ma'am, but he did get out twice to use the bathroom..
Mittzy@mcpinson @defred @SwiftOnSecurity I think there was one time where some people drowned in marmalade, or similar
Edit: it was Molasses
Ozzelot 
@defred @SwiftOnSecurity *turns down tempo on the 303* what about now
Oblomov@defred @SwiftOnSecurity we could use a very mild acid, like saliva (pH around 6.5, almost neutral). Shouldn't be a problem to find enough people to spit on them to fill the vat.
Colm Ó Donnchadha@defred @SwiftOnSecurity
There's a thing the ancient Persians did,
Tie a lad to the inside of a boat
Cover him in homey and milk(to draw flies&insects)
And put a smaller boat on top of him(to slowly crush him)
And leave him out in a lake
The Guillotines were for a quick&painless death...
Kevin Karhan 
@SwiftOnSecurity #Adobe and #Autodesk should be forcibly #dissolved and their #Software forcibly released under #FLOSS terms!
Guillaume Rossolini@SwiftOnSecurity have you tried to cancel that? It’s a multi step process too
Dushman
syn@SwiftOnSecurity no way this is legal in the EU right?
Crash!!@SwiftOnSecurity how is "you can only cancel your subscription and you lose access immediately, have fun :)" even legal?!?! Fire Adobe execs into the sun tbh
Nate Vack 🍴@cr4shmycar @SwiftOnSecurity it's only illegal if you lose in court!
oh wait, did you agree to the Terms? terribly sorry, you can't go to court, you'll need to work via arbitration
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦@cr4shmycar @SwiftOnSecurity EULA, I'm guessing
Softwarewolf@SwiftOnSecurity Gives a whole new meaning to dissolving the board of directors.
Michael WestergaardEasy fix: send them a mail you don't want to renew, then block them on your CC and chargeback if they try renewing. Make them incur costs – if enough people do that, they may reconsider (or Visa may make them reconsider if they get porn-site levels of chargebacks)
Ryan Heldt@michael @SwiftOnSecurity Something like privacy.com makes this easy. Create a card for each service and turn them off with a click.
Doesn't work in the EU :( – and only if you do it beforehand. But, like single-use email-addresses, definitely a thing everybody should start using.
@SwiftOnSecurity the dark patterns are the only reason stopping me from buying a subscription.
Earthling@SwiftOnSecurity Wasn’t Adobe first to create the subscription model in the first place?
mav 
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@SwiftOnSecurity feed them to the bone hurting juice
r0k@SwiftOnSecurity If people are having problems cancelling their subscription, switch the payment method to a virtual card (e.g. privacy.com) and then cap, pause, or close the virtual card as desired. Voila, no subscription renewal and now it's Adobe's problem, not yours.
Kaito@r0k @SwiftOnSecurity @mrjunge Adobe could make it your problem again by selling your account to a collection agency.
niko@SwiftOnSecurity it’s always morally right to pirate adobe software
Brokar@SwiftOnSecurity When they started with it i can remember the shitstorm on Twitter and in the Media everywhere. But years later people still give in and feed the wolf. So stop complaining. You knew beforehand what you were getting yourself into.
Again (speaking very slowly): You can only get those companies by denying them your money. This is all they care about. It's not you, it's not the product, it's your money. So stop buying these products!
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@SwiftOnSecurity @hacks4pancakes they couldn't even update my credit card properly - and their interface won't let me remove expired cards 🙄
Anonymous Freak@SwiftOnSecurity Doesn't take long enough.
פְּרִי@SwiftOnSecurity
"To keep your account from auto-renewing, call the bank and say Adobe scammed you"
"To keep your account from auto-renewing, call the bank and say Adobe scammed you"
Anton Piatek@SwiftOnSecurity I wonder if this is the same in the EU.
I've often cancelled things by simply telling the bank to cancel the payments - the supplier usually makes time to call you pretty quickly next month to ask about it and cancelling is not hard at that point
I've often cancelled things by simply telling the bank to cancel the payments - the supplier usually makes time to call you pretty quickly next month to ask about it and cancelling is not hard at that point
Wyatt (🏳️⚧️♀?)@SwiftOnSecurity some additional creative ways to kill adobe execs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FickQdRT54
Amy's Secret Room
4c31 🐏@SwiftOnSecurity Such abusive practices should be taken care of in court.
Matt Palmer@4c31 forced arbitration clauses take care of that little irritation.
@SwiftOnSecurity harsh yet fair
Quintessential Quicksand@SwiftOnSecurity Acid is pretty light punishment for these leeches. I hope they die on the toilet while suffering from diarrhea.
I haven't been able to updated my Adobe CC since September 2019 because my ageing Macbook can't take another update. But every year Adobe asks me to renew.
If I cancel my subscription, I no longer have access to the apps.
I don't really care, it's a work-related expense. But yeah, Subscription models need to die.
Tijgertje1987@SwiftOnSecurity way too fast.
What above radiation poisoning, just enough to be lethal?
What above radiation poisoning, just enough to be lethal?
Michelle HughesCounterpoint: it may be easier to dissolve them in a base?
Perchloric acid. Just to make sure it works.
Frank’s Ting@SwiftOnSecurity @Taco_lad reasonably confident that it is illegal in Australia to insist on auto-renewing subscriptions
Ben Stokman@SwiftOnSecurity it cancels service immediately?
Dr Suzanne she/her@SwiftOnSecurity good news! Not as good as acid but we’re moving in the right direction. "Click-to-cancel" subscriptions rule finalized by FTC
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5154814/click-to-cancel-subscriptions-memberships-ftc-rule
Þór Sigurðsson@SwiftOnSecurity That would be too generous.
Pardon my learning from WW2's Japanese and German atrocities, but they should be partially skinned (bottom half) and partially covered in millions of paper cuts (top half). Top half is then lightly covered in honey and the bottom half covered in salt. Then bottom half is submerged in lemon juice while the top half is generously sprinkled with bullet ants.
Should they survive, rinse and repeat.
Yes, I have issues.
Kirtai 🏳️⚧️
Pedes or 3 Eevees in a coat@SwiftOnSecurity I'll keep using my (legal) CS5 as long as I cannnnnn
RejZoR@SwiftOnSecurity I'm pretty sure that's illegal in EU. Or soon will be.
𝕤𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕥 ✯
David W. Jones@SwiftOnSecurity
Or you can do like I have done for well over 20 years: Don't use any Adobe products?
@Firlefanz
Or you can do like I have done for well over 20 years: Don't use any Adobe products?
@Firlefanz
mrAX@SwiftOnSecurity so to stop your auto renewal you have to immediately cease use of their software, even if you still have paid for time ?
Riley S. Faelan@SwiftOnSecurity Hey, it's not a coincidence that their flagship file format is now the common euphemism for kiddy diddlers.
Xenotime | Science/Coding VTuber@SwiftOnSecurity adobe pisses off literally everyone (except presumably their shareholders), everybody hates them (except presumably their shareholders), and yet their dominance still won’t budge.
It’s true that you don’t have to use Adobe, I’m writing this post in the middle of editing a video in kdenlive.
But the dissonance described between dominance and disgust definitely designates a monopoly that should be dispassionately dissolved
jaucourt@SwiftOnSecurity the first signs (for me) were when they were sunsetting Fireworks. They could have open sourced it, but no. It was the perfect editor for me, and they simply dumped it.