cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057

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

  • @[email protected]English
    22•2 years ago

    So, you can’t use adobe with a widely-used and -accepted browser, you must use one of the notoriously unscrupulous and anti-privacy tech giants’ browsers. Nothing worrying there! /s Also, more of “Bullshit As Usual” from adobe

      • @[email protected]English
        15•2 years ago

        Everyone was knifing Flash. It had to go. It was a mess and hard to port or secure. I mean Adobe could have open sourced it and it could have got sorted, but HTML5 was chomping at the bit to replace it. Flash content is now slipping into the “digital darkage”.

        • Nato BoramEnglish
          3•2 years ago

          Making it open source would mean it’s easier to archive old flash content. It would also make it easier to port or secure. It’s the only ethical choice.

  • @[email protected]
    21•2 years ago

    I’d seriously consider if your task can be accomplished with any other software. Personally I find LibreOffice Draw to be a perfectly adequate Adobe Acrobat Pro replacement for most situations. I know everyone has a different workflow though.

    • deweydecibelEnglish
      13•2 years ago

      Anyone linking that also need to be linking the FTC. Adobe forwards all communication from the web compact to the bin, with disdain.

      • Virkkunen
        5•2 years ago

        To be fair I think most of the reports on webcompat go straight into the bin.

  • PeleSpiritEnglish
    23•2 years ago

    Krita for paint, Affinity for publisher and photoshop (this one has a one time cost) and blender for after effects and 3d.

    Edit; Gimp for photoshop and it’s free. I haven’t used it in a decade because the UI was so bad, but it might have improved by now.

  • clobubba
    258•2 years ago

    I’m tired of professional products using such grossly unprofessional language. “Whoa there!” Fuck off.

  • blazera
    9•2 years ago

    Looked it up and apparently its for tiktoks and AI. So, youre not missing out on much.

  • Dr. MooseEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    I was really hoping that the current AI tool revolution would finally kick Adobe off but with them buying Figma (which shouldn’t have been allowed by anti trust in the first place) I don’t see that happening yet. One day though.

  • @[email protected]
    26•2 years ago

    I’ve refused to use Adobe for a while because of their bullshit. Their main product I care about is Lightroom, but Darktable is a perfectly fine replacement for it

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      I’m with you, but Darktable had soo many modules that overlap functions that I couldn’t get a good workflow going. Now, if we had a good foss copy of lightroom that behaved like lightroom, then I’d jump ship. But it is the bees bollocks so far in terms of usability.

    • Rikudou_SageEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      I haven’t checked, but I’d guess it’s because of some non-standard feature that only Chromium supports, not because of user-agent.

      • 6xpipe_
        13•2 years ago

        In my experience, companies typically use this message because they only officially support/test on the listed browsers. They block out any other browser to cut down on support emails. If you spoof your user agent so the site thinks you’re using a supported browser, somewhere between 95%-100% of the functionality will usually work just fine.

        • deejay4amEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          Companies should test to open web standards and tell users to file a ticket with their browser devs if something breaks because of nonstandard behavior.

        • @[email protected]
          6•2 years ago

          That’s what our devops team does. All of my company’s internal web apps are tested against chrome only and that’s all that’s supported. It will usually work with Firefox so it’s not a big deal unless you have an issue and they find out you’re not using Chrome.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 years ago

        That’s the thing - i haven’t checked either. Guess what’s the next step? User agent switcher