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US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel | The Justice Department alleges that Adobe hid early cancellation fees and trapped consumers in pricey subscriptions

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US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel | The Justice Department alleges that Adobe hid early cancellation fees and trapped consumers in pricey subscriptions

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@ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 12 days ago
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US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel
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The DOJ accuses Adobe of trapping users in subscriptions.
  • @SeptimaeusEnglish
    4•11 days ago

    I’m curious about this. If demonstrable, it seems many Canadians could sue.

    What is the typical user workflow? For example:

    1. An embedded Adobe applet (e.g. fill, sign, and submit on the government website)
    2. Token-based API (e.g. redirect or spawn child window/tab, user fills and signs on adobe site, user returned to government site)
    3. Something else (e.g. upload button with server-side validation for digital signing)

    Edit: looked into this a bit. Did you receive an error message like the following?

    This document does not allow you to save any changes you have made to it unless you are using Adobe Acrobat Standard DC or Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

    (Regardless it’s totally shitty that government websites recommend a specific company’s software, especially Adobe. I’m just trying to figure out if they actually force citizens to pay a private company.)