Discuss, I guess. 🙃

  • kadu@lemmy.world
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    I think the goal isn’t actually selling you Photoshop, they care but not much.

    The goal is stopping a photographer or other professional in the middle of their very busy workflow, when they absolutely can’t be interrupted, to make sure they get so annoyed they just pay to make it never happen again.

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    1 year ago

    Unless I’m missing something, the only reason Adobe even could disable your pirated Photoshop is if you haven’t blocked the application from accessing the internet in your firewall. C’mon, that’s basic stuff. =)

    • meejle@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I haven’t been bothering recently, I gotta be honest. The m0nkrus releases are just too easy haha.

      Is the hosts file hack still worth doing, or just go into Windows Firewall and take away its internet access?

      • SaltySalamander@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Just create an outbound firewall rule for the Photoshop exe that blocks internet access. That way it can’t phone home.

        • fcuks@lemmy.world
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          I also blocked “%ProgramFiles% (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\HDBox\Adobe Update Helper.exe” just in case that had anything to do with it also, not sure if it matters or not, just was fed up wtih reinstalling.

        • Timboflex@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Can also just edit the hosts to redirect any outbound connections from adobe to the local network.

        • TheElectroness
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          1 year ago

          They check the license key hasn’t been revoked via a DNS lookup, but not at install time, so often the user installs, uses, then miraculously finds it disabled a few weeks later; then runs to find a new copy/keygen and the whole situation starts again.

          (e: they also route the DNS lookup via bonjour if it’s running, so you have to keep bonjour segregated from the internet too, which can cause other problems)

        • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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          Maybe I went overboard, but I went through every Adobe exe that was installed and setup firewall rules blocking them. I notice that some of the ‘sattelite’ programs they claim are required for proper running remain in task manager after the main program is closed.

          Not just out of caution for Adobe meddling, but also… there’s no such thing as a free lunch, my assumption is that the ‘free’ pirated software cracked by a ‘friendly’ Russian will be doing something nefarious… and it probably won’t be as obvious as coming from eg After Effects.exe

    • TheElectroness
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      1 year ago

      Sadly, they do license key checking via a DNS lookup, and not all application-level firewalls block DNS.

    • asap@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I have a licenced copy of Photoshop (work pays) and I still frequently use PhotoPea. It’s just faster for quick jobs.

  • vaargk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Did you give Gimp a try? After initial struggles to adapt I don’t miss anything.

  • theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    If you get tired of that, you can get Photoshop + Lightroom for about $2/month if you’re “in” Turkey. That will also get you access to the generative AI features.

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    1 year ago

    you could use GIMP, or even PhotoGIMP if you’re too used to photoshop’s behaviour and keybindings

  • Orygin@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    What version do you use ? I left out after CS6 and the subscription move. Is the latest version easily cracked?

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      It is very easy. Use the monkarus version for hassle free download and install OR the GenP version for a slightly more complicated install but the install is directly from Creative Cloud official. Edit: https://w14.monkrus.ws/ – use this link for the monkarus version. The site is in Russian but has a US flag/UK flag on the right bar to translate the site

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      I haven’t touched an image editor that isn’t gimp in years. It does everything I could ever want and more. Installing it is as easy as typing sudo apt install gimp. No torrents, no cracks, no viruses. I really don’t understand why the vendetta against gimp is so strong. I do game modding for fun and actually have a use for “photoshop like” features and gimp delivers all this in a bullshit free package.

      Also, gimp is faster and starts up faster than photoshop.

  • local_taxi_fix@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Still using the adobe suite version I pirated in 2014. Should probably look for a newer one, it’s been almost 10 years

    • Chemical@lemmy.world
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      I don’t know, I upgraded and I very much miss my old version. Don’t really use any of the newer features

    • TheElectroness
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      Adobe ‘mistakenly’ gave away CS3 at one point for a week or two. I think I still have a copy of that somewhere.

      It was when they first started the online-only option, and they published a link to the CS3 files and the ‘legacy’ license key ‘in case you need to use it while offline’, and only later realised they’d forgotten to clarify that they were only for users that already owned it (which makes you wonder why they’d include a legacy license key). They soon realised and backtracked.