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Yes, Creative Cloud also vomits a bunch of random stuff everywhere. Right now I can see 5 launchagent/launchdaemons just from having Photoshop and Illustrator i
by pram 6y ago
Yes, Creative Cloud also vomits a bunch of random stuff everywhere. Right now I can see 5 launchagent/launchdaemons just from having Photoshop and Illustrator installed, which seems insane lol
- kitotik 6y agoNot sure if they still do it, but they also used to put hidden / protected files on any and all disk volumes as part of their copy protection scheme.
- sudosysgen 6y agoWhich is pointless when you realize that their copy-protection systems are broken in minutes every time. They should honestly give up.
- jpalomaki 6y agoThey can be still efective. Even a simple scheme may prevent a corporate user misusing some 30 day trial over and over and instead go through the trouble of getting proper license.
- sudosysgen 6y agoYes, it's probably worth it to get a simple scheme for corporate users only. But Photoshop's protection isn't simple, but it is so widely cracked that in third world countries with limited internet access there are wandering sellers with DVDs of cracked Photoshop for 2-3$ (!)
- BuildTheRobots 6y agoThe rumour a decade ago was that Adobe was the biggest producer of Adobe cracks. The idea was that it'd get people using it for free so it was the goto tool and then they could slam anyone using it commercially.
- dkdk8283 6y agoI searched for this but couldn’t find any technical articles giving details. Have any links or search bait to share?
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- kitotik 6y agoI’m not finding much searching around either. I probably have an old spinning rust drive somewhere with the files still on them. This was somewhere around the CS5 or CS6 days, pre-subscription model. From memory, in addition to sticking some pseudo-randomly named files in /System/Library, /Library, and -/Library, it would place a file in the root directory of all hfs+ volumes with xattrs set to hide and write-protect the file. Installers would then look for these files to check licensing status. At the time, this was a fairly common trick with pro/prosumer proprietary software.
- thejsa 6y agoI believe on Windows the FlexNet DRM they use(d?) would overwrite Sector 32 and/or sometimes other nearby ones [0], which broke a fair few people’s GRUB2 bootloader installs as well as TrueCrypt as Flexera apparently didn’t check to see if it was in use for something else first. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexNet_Publisher#Issues_with_bootloaders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexNet_Publisher#Issues_with_...
- duxup 6y agoFunny as on windows whatever creative cloud is supposed to do it just quits randomly....I have to wake it up all the time.
- tziki 6y agoAbsolutely this. I'm a very casual user and this is the main point why I'm thinking of getting rid of photoshop. Great tool for whenever I'm in the mood for some drawing but my god does it make me nervous about my security and privacy.
- jrockway 6y agoI stopped using Lightroom because it seems to want to modify the Windows Explorer to have a Creative Cloud section and their background software constantly pops up to tell you that it still exists. What's nice about their subscription model is that there is no sunk cost when giving up. It's $5/month and you just stop paying it. (I switched to Affinity Photo for editing but never found anything I liked for organization/library management. I just copy files around now. It ends up being OK because about 50% of my photos are from my phone, 25% are from a DSLR, and 25% are from film scans. Lightroom never helped me with phone or scanned photos, really, so I didn't give much up. Would still like some central self-hosted photo collector, though. Maybe Perkeep is what I want.)
- acdha 6y ago> What's nice about their subscription model is that there is no sunk cost when giving up. It's $5/month and you just stop paying it. Don't they try to get you to make a year commitment? I remember spending about 30 minutes with someone at Adobe getting them to cancel it when Lightroom was too slow to use on my Mac at the time (which had been more than fast enough for Aperture). After the second or third time that I told them I wasn't going to buy a new computer just for the privilege of running their software, they agreed not to charge a hefty early termination fee.
- robbintt 6y agoYes, I had to pay a fee equal to 50% of the remaining year contract. I will no longer receive PSDs directly from designers, so the designers must now to export stuff to web spec so I can work with it outside adobe.
- gtkspert 6y agoI marked my card as damaged, and when it was replaced I refused to give them the new details...
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
- birdyrooster 6y agoOn Windows 10 with only Photoshop installed I see: Adobe Update Service, Adobe Notification Client, Adobe IPC Broker, Adobe Installer, Adobe Genuine Software Service, Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Service, Adobe CEF Helper, Adobe CEF Helper, Adobe CEF Helper. That is 9 background processes for an app I haven't used in a week.
- epse 6y agoCount the node.js and postgres instances as well
- ukyrgf 6y agoThis past week mine has started doing something even more fun on Windows 10: creating "WpSystem" folders on the root of all of my secondary hard drives and putting AppData>Local>Packages>Adobe.CC folders inside of them with a bunch of Internet Explorer and other dump files in it.
- Lammy 6y agoStuff like this is why I'm still hanging on to my old Photoshop CS3. Some of the newer features are cool, but my needs are pretty basic and haven't really changed in the time CS3 has existed.
- greggman3 6y agoSadly with OS upgrades that's often not possible. I suspect CS3 runs on Windows but with Apple's aggressive removing support for old features you can no longer run CS6 on MacOS AFAIK.
- thejynxed 6y agoWonder if that is because everything from CS6 and earlier is 32-bit and Apple nuked 32-bit support in MacOS.
- tasty_freeze 6y agoI have CS6 on my windows machine and it is 64b. I would be surprised if CS6 wasn't available as a 64b option on macos.