my conversation with every single chrome user for the past decade
there is no red line, there is no amount of google fuckery they won’t tolerate, they are utterly broken, the pathetic depths they plumb are only rivaled by windows users
i just finally fully dumped chrome! firefox all the way now, not just as a “primary” browser.
next PC build or overhaul and i dump windows as well. in between going to work on “de-googling” completely
Not even being able to uninstall without first agreeing to the terms is wild.
That’s a good reason to use an operating system that will never turn over control to a software vendor.
I speak of gnu/linux, of course. Or any of the BSDs. Or any other unix variant. It’s true that there is a ton of proprietary software out there that won’t run on those, but it’s almost always from exploitative companies like Adobe who should be run out of business.
u def know this already, but for windows/mac users reading: there are FOSS alternatives of like everything. im new to linux but i found okular is a good alt for acrobat and even supports digital signatures. and ive heard gimp can be altered to have the same layout as photoshop
Im too using gimp (even made a small tutorial for some folks) and okular ob my win10 laptop. Almost all of my laptop runs on open source programs (probably apart from some one or two pirated games). I’ll probably fully switch to debian next year.😅
It’s so liberating using open source programs and os.😌
This is actually fucking insane. Like I get that it’s so they can sell your work for generative tool training sets, but it also just lets them straight up sell your work and license it as they please? I can’t see this going unchallenged legally. Adobe’s software is practically load-bearing in creative industries. The idea that all the moneyed interests involved would just lay down and say, “sure you’ve got rights to our movie now,” just doesn’t make any sense at all.
To add, every time adobe updates it’s software the cybersecurity team releases a bulletin about it being vulnerable to a bunch of exploits. So they’re updating us with broken crap, and this is just the PDF readers and editors.
Between the constant shuffle of security concerns and the stupid licensing, the IT department gave up and moved on to foxit.
