Fuck Subscriptions
Naming and shaming all "recurring spending models" where a one-time fee (or none at all) would be appropriate and logical.
Expect use of strong language.
Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.
No flamewars or attacking other users, unless they're spineless corporate shills.
Note that not all subscriptions are awful. Supporting your favorite ~~camgirl~~ creator or Lemmy server on Patreon is fine. An airbag with subscription is irl Idiocracy-level dystopian bullshit.
New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.
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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:
Some other useful links:
Louis Rossman's YouTube channel
Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:
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Time to move elsewhere, then.
Literally just cancelled and uninstalled every paid Adobe app I ever had. Currently hiding under desk in case sky falls.
Update: Sky did not fall. I did need to mess with an image and put some text on it yesterday but found that Windows has a thing called Designer and that seemed to have more than enough functionality for my needs. Yay!
I wonder if this Adobe price hike won't turn out to be a bit of an own goal for them. Imagine if millions of lazy users like me who were paying monthly but not really using the software were all motivated by the price hike to review their use of Adobe products and cancel... eep.