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...but it asks for all your identifying information so their sales team can email, phone, snail-mail solicit you to upgrade...until their shit gets hacked and t

by animex 3y ago

...but it asks for all your identifying information so their sales team can email, phone, snail-mail solicit you to upgrade...until their shit gets hacked and then they are paying out a multi-million dollar privacy settlement/fine :/

Almondsetat 3y ago
You do know that you can just write gibberish in the download form, right?
- sofixa 3y ago
  You never know, some vendors send you the download link / license file via email, so at least that part needs to be legit.
  - culi 3y ago
    you can use a disposable email https://temp-mail.org/ https://temp-mail.org/ Or just maintain a personal throwaway email that's not tied to your real life identity
  - vik0 3y ago
    Just use a temporary email from some temporary email generator like https://temp-mail.org/ https://temp-mail.org/ (use an AdBlock, I'm sure the site is littered with ads, but I wouldn't know cause I use uBlock)
    - sofixa 3y ago
      Those are often blacklisted though, same as any mails on free TLDs.
  - franky47 3y ago
    That's what I thought too, but it's just a datawall, the link is available right after submitting. So go ahead and John Doe it.
  - Almondsetat 3y ago
    Just try once to check if they send the email?
diggan 3y ago
There is a link in the bottom right or left of that form that allows you to download without registering.
- latexr 3y ago
  And for macOS it’s on the App Store, so no forms.
flexagoon 3y ago
You can just write whatever in that form. It doesn't get checked. That's why some distros have packages for davinci resolve - they just POST random data to the website. For example NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/781e2a9797ecf0f146e81425c822dca69fe4a348/pkgs/applications/video/davinci-resolve/default.nix#L71 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/781e2a9797ecf0f146e814... Arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=davinci-resolve#n53 https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=davin...

by animex 3y ago

Almondsetat 3y ago

You do know that you can just write gibberish in the download form, right?

sofixa 3y ago
You never know, some vendors send you the download link / license file via email, so at least that part needs to be legit.
- culi 3y ago
  you can use a disposable email https://temp-mail.org/ https://temp-mail.org/ Or just maintain a personal throwaway email that's not tied to your real life identity
- vik0 3y ago
  Just use a temporary email from some temporary email generator like https://temp-mail.org/ https://temp-mail.org/ (use an AdBlock, I'm sure the site is littered with ads, but I wouldn't know cause I use uBlock)
  - sofixa 3y ago
    Those are often blacklisted though, same as any mails on free TLDs.
- franky47 3y ago
  That's what I thought too, but it's just a datawall, the link is available right after submitting. So go ahead and John Doe it.
- Almondsetat 3y ago
  Just try once to check if they send the email?

diggan 3y ago

There is a link in the bottom right or left of that form that allows you to download without registering.

latexr 3y ago
And for macOS it’s on the App Store, so no forms.

flexagoon 3y ago

You can just write whatever in that form. It doesn't get checked. That's why some distros have packages for davinci resolve - they just POST random data to the website. For example NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/781e2a9797ecf0f146e81425c822dca69fe4a348/pkgs/applications/video/davinci-resolve/default.nix#L71 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/781e2a9797ecf0f146e814... Arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=davinci-resolve#n53 https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=davin...