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I'm talking about High Sierra, and apps loaded from App Store or non-store download links. For example, System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Acce
by osteele 9y ago
I'm talking about High Sierra, and apps loaded from App Store or non-store download links. For example, System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility lists (among others) “Backup & Sync from Google”, BetterTouchTool, Dash, Dropbox, Google Chrome, Google Software Update, Keyboard Maestro, Little Snitch Agent. Many of these aren't even available from the app store. If I keep Accessibility unselected, some of these have degraded functionality. For example, I keep the Google apps and Dropbox unchecked, and then they can't annotate my Finder icons. (I'm okay with that.) I keep Dash unchecked, and keyboard snippets don't work.
You're right that this isn't super fine-grained. This single checkbox seems to govern several unrelated things, such as keystroke logging and insertion (Dash and Keyboard Maestro), mouse recording and control (Keyboard Maestro), and whatever APIs are used to badge Finder icons (Google and Dropbox). My belief is that an app that I haven't checked off there doesn't have access to my keystrokes. (Maybe this is wrong?) In which case I'm surprised there's nothing like this for recording the screen.