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It's definitely the case in Germany for all insurances, electricity and other utilities, etc - they have long cancellation periods, but if the contract changes to your detriment (usually any sort of price increase), you're allowed to cancel immediately. It's even required that they remind you of that right in the same notification as the price increase.

> they have long cancellation periods

This used to be. Now you only have to fulfill your first (long) period, and afterwards you can cancel any month.

If they change the terms during the first period, as you mention, you can cancel immediately.

There has to be some individual country nuance there. EU legislation for B2B is very limited for example (article is about B2B)

In Europe companies are obligated to intercept and scan images anyway, so you can't escape Adobe's new spyware terms by switching vendors; they'll all have the same ToS provision.

(i.e. "for content review")

Are you talking about possible future regulations that have not yet come into force? Are you aware that many drafts are very unrealistic and will never come into force?

No.