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So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem. (images4.imagebam.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until Adobe, and therefore my job, required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn't the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Only if people continue to give money to Adobe.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Genuinely can't see a future where people collectively ditch adobe. They make industry standard products that companies, educational institutions, professionals, etc... buy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to be responsible for the app portfolio in a 1000+ user company, and every 3 years or so I would go back out to the market and try hard to replace Adobe, just for PDF operations. Couldn’t do it because so many products were integrated with them, often in ways we could not reproduce with other products. The best we could do would be to pay for a different product for 1/3 of the cost for Adobe, and then still end up having to carry a significant number of Adobe licenses for cases when integration failed with the other product. No-win situation, and just easier to stay with the evil we knew.

I hate them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

In the AEC field we have Bluebeam as a de facto industry standard for PDFs, and it's vastly superior to Acrobat in every way for our typical use cases. I imagine it's a bit harder in other industries, though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Google is worrying me with their ever-encroaching strategy of limiting internet access through DRM

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I2P and TOR network will be my home in near future.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately the majority of users or don't care about privacy or don't want to spend time to learn how to use other tools and for extremely professional tasks Adobe suite is not easily replaceable.