Where's Your Ed At

A scathing critique of Adobe's business practices, detailing how the company uses deceptive subscription tactics, hidden early termination fees (50% of remaining balance), dark patterns to prevent cancellation, and deliberate product degradation to extract maximum revenue from captive users. The DOJ settled with Adobe for $150 million — roughly 0.345% of its two-year revenue — without requiring any business practice changes. The piece broadens into a critique of the entire SaaS industry's growth-at-all-costs model and calls out tech journalists and analysts for blaming company decline on 'AI threats' rather than examining actual product quality and customer abuse. Adobe's CEO stepping down after 18 years is cited as a signal that the enshittification model is reaching its limits.

Premium: The Hater's Guide To Adobe

Adobe Is The Best Example of the Worthlessness Of The Modern Public Software Company That I Can Find

Reporters and Analysts: Stop Blaming Software Companies Being Run Like Shit On AI

<p>Not to mention the backdoor they silently install on your computer, a service running as LocalSystem.</p>
<p>I don’t think Mevin Mitnick ever went to prison for anything he did that software companies like Adobe do not also do on a daily basis.</p>
