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I await the first few apps to put ads on the Touch Bar. It seems all but inevitable.
by dvcc 10y ago
I await the first few apps to put ads on the Touch Bar. It seems all but inevitable.
- Razengan 10y agoIf I understand correctly it's like the Menu Bar, so only the application that's currently in focus will get to display stuff on it; they won't be able to hijack it from the background. Frankly, if an app insists on showing me ads while I'm using it, I'd rather that they be on the Touch Bar instead of the main screen.
- stcredzero 10y agoHow long before some application hijacks focus by only pretending to give it up, just so it can display ads? (Also, maybe record keystrokes.)
- eridius 10y agoApplications cannot do that. You cannot prevent the user from switching to another app, and even if you could, you can't show that other app's menubar or make its windows appear to have focus when they don't. The closest you can come to preventing app switching is using old-style fullscreen capture plus disabling global hotkeys (you know, like how a lot of old games work), but when you're doing that, the user can't even see other apps, much less think they've got focus.
- Razengan 10y agoAs far as I know, to do things like record keystrokes or interfere with the UI of other processes, an app on macOS has to be manually permitted through System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility. Steam's in-game overlay feature and even some functions of the built-in Automator utility have to be allowed from there.
- mortenjorck 10y agoDoubtful, mostly because there just isn't that much ad-supported software on OS X / macOS. And Safari certainly doesn't expose any access to it.
- Terribledactyl 10y agoI believe with safari open, you see a representation (favicon? I don't know) of your open tabs and favorites. I bet something could leak through there, at least with a desperate enough site.
- guywithabike 10y agoHow would that be different than just putting ads right on the main display?
- awesomerobot 10y agoI mean honestly it would be preferable to ads on the main display. Either way, if I didn't want to use an application with ads I'd just uninstall it.