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Tell HN: On Skype for Mac, you now have to do Cmd+Q twice for it to quit.
I'm a little paranoid and skeptical of Silicon Valley companies and their dirty tactics to surveil on and profit from our data as much as possible, so I thought I'd report a small observation to HN which is probably overblown and paranoid, but here goes.
Since recent updates of Skype for Mac, doing Cmd+Q in the app does NOT quit it. I have to do it twice. I can repeat this behaviour every time. Can anyone else?
Do you think it's an innocent mistake or a deliberate attempt to make Skype that little bit more persistent on your computer and to get you used to having less control over it?
If it's a new 'feature' (like how with Mac Chrome you can turn on accidental Cmd+Q prevention), I never turned it on.
We know MS ideally wants you keep Skype in your 'taskbar' at all times, thus my paranoid reflection. I can't stand it when companies try to give us less control over our hardware/software, and we know MS is notorious about this with their desktop OS.
- oil25 7y agoI don't understand. If you don't trust Skype so much that you're paranoid over the quit behavior, why not use another program to communicate? Not that your paranoia is unjustified - the Snowden leaks made it abundantly clear that service is not secure nor private.
- quaquaqua1 7y agoSome people simply refuse to use anything else, for example, in a job interview situation. Power dynamics call the shots sometimes!
- Nextgrid 7y agoRefuse anything else, even the phone? Which industries are you in? In the software world I never had any issues getting by with the phone and/or FaceTime.
- Sevii 7y agoChrome requires you to hold Cmd-Q down before it will close.
- decentralizer 7y agoWhich sometimes lets you close other applications at background accidentally.
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