Why on earth should I have to authenticate with ANY party before getting to remove a piece of software on my own personal computer? Why does OSes let this happen to begin with? Adobe is no stranger to these kind of anti-user interactions, but they’re far from the only ones. NVIDIA used to force user to login before letting them interact with their GeForce driver, although this is slightly fixed with their new NVIDIA App (still an awful piece of software but at least you can update drivers without having to sign in now).

Now Adobe does provide an alternative way to uninstall their pieces of crapware, but is it really that easy? Remember this is the POS company that charges you for not wanting to give them money anymore.

Honestly, how this company remains one of the biggest design product companies in the world remains an utter mystery to me. This should’ve crashed and burned a long time ago when they betrayed their user base for the first time, and yet we allowed them to not only survive, but continue to thrive up until this point.