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Hang on, Google and Dropbox are snooping around on the filesystem outside of their configuration or explicitly shared folders?
by BuildTheRobots 7y ago
Hang on, Google and Dropbox are snooping around on the filesystem outside of their configuration or explicitly shared folders?
- mindfulhack 7y agoYes. I was shocked at it, but on second thought I'm not surprised. Since Catalina, security prompts come up early on about Dropbox and Google Drive wanting to access your "Downloads" folder. Caught red-handed. I know there's been third-party macOS apps providing this 'filesystem firewall' functionality for years now, but it's nice to have some of it come from Apple directly. I think I will eventually move to Linux, I just don't feel private on my own damn computer anymore. I don't trust Apple either. Or I will harden macOS more and more because of this abuse.
- arh68 7y agoYes maybe, at times, even Chrome: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19653881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19653881