What's surprising me most is how much the devs/IT guys are considering that the computer of their users belong to them and that they can choose to do whatever t

What's surprising me most is how much the devs/IT guys are considering that the computer of their users belong to them and that they can choose to do whatever they want because they write the software !!!! How is the "auto-updater" different from any malware calling remote website or mining bitcoins???? In both cases, the dev decided what must happen with the users computer without its consent ! Even Windows allow to disable updates...