Can't uninstall Adobe apps without an account (2018)

I don&#x27;t know how we got to this state that we don&#x27;t control our own basic processes and how they behave.<p>Just off the top of my head right now on osx: can&#x27;t shut down creative cloud app from the app bar, can&#x27;t shut down webex, docker desktop regularly hijacks everything I&#x27;m doing (once when having a presentation in front of 100 people) to show there&#x27;s an update, steam client jumping in the tray for hours unless I acknowledge there&#x27;s an update, apps registering to be started on boot by themselves and having to go through a convoluted process to turn it off (if it even exists)...

I try to avoid Adobe like the plague these days. It&#x27;s not always easy, but thankfully it&#x27;s getting easier.<p>As nobody has mentioned them yet, I would highly recommend Affinity products as alternatives to Adobe software. Coupled with Sketch, I&#x27;ve been able to avoid Adobe products for 2+ years now.<p>Affinity have replacements for Photoshop (Photo), InDesign (Publisher) and Illustrator (Designer), currently on sale for not too far off the cost of a single month of Adobe CC. They might not have 100% feature parity, but they&#x27;re really very good.

The adobe apps acted like malware. Open your TaskManager(Activity Monitor on Mac) to see how much craps run on your computer when you installed Creative Cloud.

I was using photoshop and premiere quite heavily since DOS days, back when it fit on 3 3.5&quot; floppies. I really hated the adobe cloud concept... I just don&#x27;t like the idea of renting software instead of owning it. Then it kept getting worse as far as resources it was consuming and number of softwares that were required to install. What really ticked me off was having to pay to upgrade photoshop whenever I got a new camera because you could only get the newest &quot;camera raw&quot; with the most current version. So basically you end up buying an entire new version of photoshop just for an updated nikon raw codec (in my case) just to be able to import your images.<p>I spent a good deal of time and money in 2020 getting myself untangled from Adobe. The only thing of theirs allowed on my system now is a pdf reader and left such a bitter taste in my mouth I will actively never purchase another one of their professional products again. $300 for Black Magic&#x27;s Resolve Studio is wayyyy worth it, and a better product now that I&#x27;m more proficient at it. I know many professionals in the film&#x2F;video industry who have left them and won&#x27;t look back. I was a hold out for too long.<p>The only thing that makes me particularly sad about it now is that I have no way to open my old projects, because you rent adobe - you don&#x27;t own it. Well I can open things that were created prior to version 6 as I do still own 5.5 Creative Suite and can use it... If I can find a damn dvd reader.

You know what app vendor I really like?<p>The Omni Group.<p>They are pretty much the epitome of &quot;You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar&quot;.<p>They even offer their products with a subscription - and I would consider it! They let you purchase your apps for real, they&#x27;re not forcing anything, and then I think I should support their efforts.<p>Additionally their licensing is: buy a license, type in your code, your program works. You can use your personal license on all your machines and they trust you.<p>Last they allow you to save your data to &quot;the cloud&quot;, but don&#x27;t force it. And &quot;the cloud&quot; means you can conveniently store it on their server, or on your own or someone else&#x27;s webdav server.<p>More people should follow their good example.<p>(and remember, with trust, commerce is unlimited)

I&#x27;ve always associated efficiency of a program by its package size and with this mindset, Adobe Suite would be on the bottom of my list as being the most inefficient set of programs in modern times (proof: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;G1nJn7H" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;G1nJn7H</a>). I mean come on, 7.53GB for Adobe Acrobat? Then they tell you that your install base is bloated and you can save space by uninstalling&#x2F;reinstalling it. As of recently, I find myself using Figma more and more becuase I don&#x27;t want to wait for the counter Adobe program to load. SMH! I hope someone from Adobe is reading.<p>FYI, WinAmp v2.8 is not #1 but high on the same list for being a butt kicker for its package size!

They&#x27;ve really upped their malware game recently. Even if unintentional, this sort of dark pattern shows incompetence, otherwise it&#x27;s malfeasance. Happily the response as a consumer is the same.

A while back I needed to do a project on an adobe product, I signed up and installed. After completing the project I uninstalled the software, some how I miss read that what I signed up for was an annual subscription of $11 per month. And when I stopped my subscription they charged me for the full year’s remaining fees.<p>I was shocked, it left a very bitter taste of bad practice on their part in my opinion. I have since switched to only work with Affinity products, and I cannot be more happy with the quality of the Affinity suite of products.<p>As a developer who has to deal with odd here and there graphic problems, Affinity products with a great once-off price model makes so much more sense.

As an OSX User i have 32 (!) rules in my LULU Firewall preventing Adobe to call home, which says a lot

I agree that Adobe is crooked for not allowing people to uninstall their software...<p>But, why would you give a new employee a computer without imaging it first? I&#x27;d much rather spend the time imaging a new computer then try and clean off all the junk the old employee left.

I highly recommend Affinity Designer&#x2F;Photo&#x2F;Publisher - they have 90 days trial and you can buy them 50% off[1] - one time payment, you can install it on more than one computer.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;affinity.serif.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;supporting-the-creative-community&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;affinity.serif.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;supporting-the-creative-com...</a>

I uninstalled Creative Cloud from my PC last week and my oh my, did it feel like I was transported back to e.g. 2007.<p>I emotionally recoil from businesses whose only remaining competition moat is &quot;we make it hard to get rid of our stuff&quot;

Also, you also cannot install old Adobe apps anymore. I have a full version of Illustrator CS2 that I paid about 500€ for, but cannot install it because it needs to be activated and Adobe shut their licensing servers down.

This was actually quite an issue when my father-in-law died and his wife wanted to continue to use the computer. It was only because I have an Adobe ID of my own that I was able to resolve it by temporarily licensing it under my subscription....

The OS shoulders some of this blame. Apps like Adobe’s should not be able to exist using ransomware patterns. If I want the app to uninstall, nuke it Windows.

Maybe I’m just getting old but I can’t believe how inefficient everything I used to love when I was younger has become recently. Adobe used to be the gold standard of quality software. I feel like eventually (i.e. the switch to creative cloud) they must have realized they didn’t want to focus on improving their products anymore and just switched to milking their customers. I’m afraid they are on the downslope now.

As Richard Stallman puts it &quot;either the user controls the program or the program controls the user.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM</a>

Adobe has this weird attitude to assume they own computers of users. Blocking possibility of unistalling is just one example. Another is that it downloads new version of apps theought CC and does not remove old one. It also gets a lots of memory and storage for no particular reason.<p>But it is not only CC. I am asked once per some weeks if I want to remove Flash. I didn&#x27;t ask about showing these spammy popups. But Adobe knows better. The pop-up has two options: uninstall or remind later...<p>And if I don&#x27;t want to uninstall Flash? It seems it is not my decision what software is installed on my computer according to Adobe.

I think I would like to use Photoshop. But Creative Cloud stops me, once upon a time I was needed to delete Adobe apps from PC and it was a nightmare. Nowadays you can&#x27;t install Adobe apps without Creative Cloud.

This is an OS (Windows) problem. It allows the software to behave that way. Windows Store version of the software will fix those problems - single uninstall button in the store and you are done.

Bad form by Adobe, certainly, but all the anti-subscription hate is unreasonable. For professional creative work, CC is well worth the money.

You even have to detach the Internet cable to install Windows without a Microsoft account nowadays. I hope all this online account abomination is just a temporary fad.

I think these kind of practices get regulated. There is absolutely no need for apps like Photoshop to be constantly online and spy on users. I think it should be illegal for the application to stay online if there is no legitimate need for it, I also hope that GDPR legislation will be extended to apps, as it seems they can just pull as much personal data as they like without any user control.

no terminal command to do this?

(2018)