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As someone recently having gone through that: The cancellation experience is bad, but nothing compared to the experience of then deinstalling Adobe CC. After some fixing I did get my machine to at least boot without throwing error messages, but I still see Adobe stuff hanging around my system. Ugh.

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I’m convinced it’s literally impossible to remove it from your machine. I once ran tree on root before and after installing so I would know exactly what to remove when I was done with the project. And I was absolutely determined to remove every trace of it. I probably spent days in total attempting to rid my machine of the malware before giving up. It’s everywhere. And when you remove it their sneaky pings home (even after you’re no longer a customer!) find a way to put it right back on your machine.

The people behind Blender, Figma, etc. are doing a public service as far as I’m concerned. The sooner Adobe dies as a company the better.

Yeah. It isn't fun whith an outgoing firewall, there's always a new service trying to connect to some server, whith such funky names that you kinda have to verify that it's an official server before you greenlight it.

I'm wondering if they (or a third party) gonna make use of Windows 365 cloud PC's with Creative Cloud preinstalled and just sell access to it when needed.

I've had this opinion for years: Adobe is the Microsoft of creative software. They're gigantic and ubiquitous, but their software is miserable garbage and they don't care.

I luckily only ever did web design with their software, and Sketch has been a viable tool for me for about 5 years so I am not trapped in their ecosystem.

Their software is pretty great. They're behind on some things because they are a slow behemoth, but by and large their software is polished and feature-heavy and in many cases the industry standard.

Regedit is your friend. Find -> Adobe -> delete -> yes

Well why would you ever uninstall Adobe CC? You love Adobe CC don't you? You wouldn't give it up would you? You need Adobe CC to live don't you?

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