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Comment by kradeelav

3 years ago

Overall love your list! Definitely adding some of these companies on my mental list to pursue should the current work dry up, and would suggest perhaps adding the Electronic Frontier Foundation for similar accessibility / digital advocacy work.

However would personally remove Adobe as the single black eye to the entire list -- I cannot think of a more morally bankrupt company short of FAANG, and possibly surpassing FAANG -- due to its habits of dark patterns, subscription shenaniganry, and jacking up prices way beyond what most hobbyists/students can afford let alone professionals who are not part of an enterprise platform.

Doesn’t the rest of FAANG sell subscriptions to zero-marginal-cost digital goods as well? Is Adobe doing something different?