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US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel | The Justice Department alleges that Adobe hid early cancellation fees and trapped consumers in pricey subscriptions (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember when Adobe was a cool company that built art tools. Now it seems like the art tools are an afterthought, tacked onto a money-siphoning scheme.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance... Is there anything they've ever bought they haven't slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a good point. I gotta be honest, I'd forgotten that Adobe bought Photoshop.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Yeah they're kind of the ultimate monopolization machine