Very Getty-like. Arguably watermarks are easy to remove anyway, but with an image like this one, there's virtually nothing you need to do!

On Adobe Stock I don't  see any watermarks at all recently. Anyone else? Why is that?

This new very minimal watermark is super easy to remove with Photoshop generative fill

If the image has copy space on the side you do not even  need to take that much effort. Just crop the image. Many customers want square shaped images for social media anyways. This new watermark is an insult.

Why not contact iStock and show them how easy it is to replace - perhaps they will come up with a better watermark that can't simply be replaced with generative fill, and/or cropping it?

Why not contact iStock and show them how easy it is to replace - perhaps they will come up with a better watermark that can't simply be replaced with generative fill, and/or cropping it?

iStock has had several variations of better watermarks - the ones they just replaced with this one would do. The one before that was even more "in your face". They don't need any help to come up with something better and they chose this weak one with a full understanding of its limitations.

The way things are now - none of the stock licenses mandate a maximum size for online usage, for example (which they used to do) - a watermark is just there to alert honest people that they need to license the image. On the other hand, making it so easy to steal can get out of hand. Ask Hyundai and Kia about their settlement.

And I know, stock agency contributors don't have anyone to go to bat for them as work is stolen wholesale.

Thank you for your help, Jo Ann

The combination of how high resolution the preview images are plus the pathetic watermark means I might just have to remove all of my images. I sell mostly vectors and it would be incredibly easy to download the preview and do a trace of it for free. I sent a complaint to iStock but doubt it will make a difference.