Adobe can take their software and shove it

[67Dart273]

right up their A$$.

I decided I should learn something about this fancy Adobe Photoshop "Elements" so I got busy and went over to B&H Photo and ordered "Elements 14" along with the companion "premiere" I guess is a video editor

VERY FIRST THING out of the box pop the CD in the screen comes up and...............

You can NOT install it without having an online Adobe account, which I forgot I had.........

so I had to fiddle around with the "forgot my password" nonsense, and THAT is where the real trouble started, because THIS IS SO DAMMED IMPORTANT that you must......

have an 8 character combination figures / letters password, with a mix of some upper case and lower case

You can NOT have a password that incorporates part of your "name."

You can NOT change your password to one you previously used, which means, that "it ain't that easy" to remember WTF you actually DID use, and if you FORGET again "ever" this means you have burned yet ANOTHER pw

THEY WANT MY FREEKIN BIRTHDATE. I don't remember volunteering for the armed forces, I already DID that once. Adobe you pieces O.S. You do NOT need my birthdate to "allow" me to "rent" your lousy bloated software to learn to edit a few damn measly stinkin photos!!!!!

And of course "guess what?"

They don't TELL you all these requirements before you plunk down the better part of a hunnerd bucks, and this means that NOW you cannot send it back!!!

 

[toolmanmike]

Frustrating isn't it.

 

[67Dart273]

Maddening is what it is. I'm beginning to understand how terrorists are born

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Just mess with them back and give a birth date around the age of dirt.

 

[67Dart273]

Just mess with them back and give a birth date around the age of dirt.

That does not work either, sometimes. I got po'd awhile back I kept getting results in searches for "pinterest" and some of them would not display without being "signed in." So I set about creating a fake account, and put in a birthdate-----don't know---that I was about a year old. NOW, whenever you get a hit on something in the search results, you get a message about "you have to wait until you are 13 years old" or some crap, and I cannot figure out how to correct THAT!!!!

 

[magnumdart]

With your birthdate, they can target you, in order to sell you thousands of dollars worth of crap even less useful. They probably can get more for you info than they sold their crappy program for.

 

[RedFish]

Back when I was into bootleg everything... I hooked up friends with pirated versions of Pshop. Up to cs8 I think. Every time they claimed they had an update for Acrobat Reader they were actually hunting down and killing bootleg Adobe software. Real hassle to uninstall, reg' edit, re install, run whatever crack or key gen req'd. Lesson we learned, don't accept/run any Adobe updates.