Louis Rossmann ripped a new one on Adobe : privacy

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

Just cancelled my Adobe sub. Even if I was comfortable with how they use my data (and I am most assuredly fucking not) I'm also uncomfortable with them helping themselves to the NDA'd projects I do for clients. I trialed Affinity Photo and it meets 98% of my needs and is on sale 50% off right now. Bite my ass, Adobe.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And your clients are ok getting these files? Speaking for the studios I’ve worked out, our clients wouldn’t stick around if we didn’t give them industry standard files (psds, etc.).

What upsets me the most is everyone let me build a monopoly that has been strangleholding the design industry for like 2 decades.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

For the kind of work I have been doing I have not needed to hand over any psd files. Photoshop is(was) only a small step in my workflow and the main thing I get hired for is 3D modelling services. Regardless, I still work with NDA'd content and Adobe's terms are invasive as hell.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Ya no argument there. Adobe is way out of bounds. We have largely moved to Figma but that was like pulling teeth as every was using Ps and Ai when I joined. Ai for wireframes had me tossing at night not gonna lie!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I remember when figma was about to be bought out by adobe, thankfully the deal got terminated for anti monopology reasons

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah thank the heavens the deal was squashed. It was a bold move even for Adobe.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

You can export files as PSD and tiff with affinity, so it should work with clients

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The PSDs it spits out lose a lot of editing capabilities and have limited functionality. TIFF is destructive our clients would shit if we gave them tiffs.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

This guy is a fucking hero for calling out these companies' bullshit practices like that. I don't really care if there's some misstep about the open source thing. The content that I've seen from him is still good in my opinion.

Fuck Adobe.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Lemme guess, he doesn't agree with Adobe like the rest of the internet?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I cannot confirm nor deny.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I do love the term "Rufiee E.U.L.A."

Because honestly that's mostly what they are.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Started watching him repair boards back in the day, enjoyed him going after companies to start with, and it's just become exhausting now

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I get where you're coming from, however I reckon he's doing a huge public service in this regard, imagine someone just happens to click on one of his vids and learns how scummy corpos are. That's why I believe he should continue with these callouts, but yeah I'd like to see more actual repair stuff in future.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Can you not use Adobe offline?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

No. They check validation constantly with their daemon and while you can technically loop it back using hacks, no studio is doing that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wooooow...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

They are considered malware at this point. The telemetry they collect the fact that your machine has to run a slew of daemons and that they are binding it all behind your mandatory Adobe account that has all your financial details, kinda shows how users rights are in the dark ages digitally speaking.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I'm just gonna stick with Vimeo...

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Nope. Creative Cloud requires internet access for DRM.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

No idea, I haven't used anything form that company in about 7 years.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You don't have to save your files to Adobe cloud, if that's what you mean. It does check for a valid license occasionally, but I've used Photoshop when my internet was out without any problems in the past.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Probably not

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Adobe responds

Louis reacts

I ignore his video and make a shitty joke about wishing he would use his right to repair to fix his channel.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

He's doing gods work. I love his wit and I can't believe he's single handedly fighting for right to repair.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

For once the username actually reflects the intelligence of a user.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Designers if youre in a pinch, photopea.com is free.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I fucking love Louis, knows his shit, isn't afraid to call shitfuckery out for what it is.

I genuinely can't recall a video of his I've watched that hasn't been informative, entertaining or both.

My opinion if him continues to climb, however, as instructed, if he ever uses adobe premiere for a video and I find out about it, it's an unsub from me.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 2 weeks ago

He looks like a raccoon and should get some sleep :p

Makes me feel all warm and cozy

It makes me think why haven't these companies got suied out of existence 😮‍💨🙄

[+] [email protected] -19 points 2 weeks ago

I don't trust this grifter after he tried to rewrite the definition of open source.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

I don't say I trust him, don't even know him. Having said that, his videos are mostly well evidenced, and it is still super fun to see him blasting these companies.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He also repeats himself a lot. A lot. Keeps repeating himself which is why his videos are 2h. Because he just keeps repeating himself. A lot.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Lol. Lol. Lol.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Just watch the first 5-10min and once you think you've heard something before, find something else to watch 🤷

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You don't have to agree to someone in full or in none. There is no 0 or 1 here.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Can you elaborate on that? I don't really follow him that closely. I thought he was the guy that fights for right to repair.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://mander.xyz/post/13886025

FUTO is the organisation Rossmann works for.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for that. Almost all the software I use is open source, and honestly I don't pay close enough attention to what the license is. I should probably read up on them, but I'm not profiting off them either and I try to contribute where I can.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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