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People Aren't Happy with Adobe's Spyware-Like Terms of Service Update (80.lv)
22 points by rmason 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



People aren't happy but have no real alternatives and so they just have to suck it up. Same story with Microsoft products.


A lot of people is assuming the change is AI related but it sounds more like they are going to start (or maybe clarifying that they already do) actively monitoring creations for illegal activity and the like. I'm reserving judgement here / just making an observation.

The "worldwide royalty free distribution thing" is more or less the standard industry terms when a cloud service is allowed to redistribute work via something like a share button. But I wonder if the terms can be more explicit in general (for example: only grant the license if the user uses the "share" functionality on that particular file)


>they are going to start (or maybe clarifying that they already do) actively monitoring creations for illegal activity

Adobe was already doing that. The main info in the TOS changes was a little more clarity on how they do that.

You can find more info, included what actually changed here:

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-a...

(i work for adobe)


It seems to me that many publicly traded companies are increasingly showing user hostile behavior the last 24 months.




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