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Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation (appleinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation::Adobe could face hefty fines related to its overly difficult and costly subscription cancellation practices due to an ongoing Federal Trade Commission Probe.

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[–] Wermhatswormhat 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Back in the day there used to be a patch that could block the app from communicating with adobe’s servers to verify the subscription.

That might still exist in some form, but with all of phthoshops new AI features I’d imagine that you’d need constant communication with those servers for the app to actually function.

I’m sorry I didn’t provide any actual help.

[–] distantsounds 6 points 11 months ago

That takes me back...I used to work at a computer training company where we would build PC images with the trial versions of everything on them, and every 30 days we'd reimage the machines. The president of the company was shady af. I got out of there just as Adobe was making the transition to subs. I do not miss explaining to the class attendees why everything was watermarked as trail versions.

[–] shalafi 4 points 11 months ago

Acrobat X started failing for me using that crack. Launches and immediately shuts down.