Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Louis rips Adobe to shreds over their garbage response, because they deserve it" video.

Classic gaslighting. "We would never use your data to train AI (even though we could)! We would never scan your files (unless they have a warrant)!" The most disgusting thing is that they claim they need permission to access your files in order to open them, which is backwards—ADOBE shouldn't be opening my files, I should be opening my files using their software, which I bought and paid for. Disgusting. Even worse that realistically nothing will change, as you can't even use an "old version" of CS unless you're willing to go back, like, a decade.
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@Eskoxo What are you, a mac user? Heck, uninstalling on a mac isn't even that easy—Adobe software works its little tendrils all through your operating system, changing extensions defaults, cluttering up your registry, setting up autoupdate and phone-home daemons and collecting who knows what telemetry.
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IDK—it's easier to switch from Windows to Linux than it is to switch off the Adobe suite. Forgetting that professionals have decades of files in their proprietary formats, Photoshop and GIMP (or Premiere Pro and Resolve) are so completely different, switching stacks is basically starting from zero. Just as we saw with the Pantone charlie foxtrot they have creatives by the cojones.
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@theKashConnoisseur That works fine for you and me, but not so much for small businesses and self-employed professionals who have to worry about getting sued. Have a look at what's going on with Oracle right now for the poor schmucks who actually still pay for Java.
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I keep my 2013 MacBook Pro on the last version of OSX that can run 32-bit apps, primarily so I can open up any of my college projects in CS2 if the need arises.
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@StormBreaker1987 Off-topic, but Acrobat is a such a bloated PDF reader / editor. The only reason to use it is the proprietary "features" they layer onto an ISO standard. On mac, I can count on one hand the number of times I've needed something beyond Preview, and on Linux, evince is the perfect viewer + LibreOffice Draw is fine as an editor.
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