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A few thoughts: -I've noticed the overall experience of downloading and installing on a lot of "classic" windows apps making installing a little dicier- ads ar
by caycep 6y ago
A few thoughts:
-I've noticed the overall experience of downloading and installing on a lot of "classic" windows apps making installing a little dicier- ads are served on the download page, and look like official install links, and installers themselves have issues like the above.
-App store is one way I supposed - it's a way to cryptographically sign things but with an element of control delegated to the central computer vendor; which is unpalatable to a lot of the open source/free computing crowd
-The one thought that came to me - is blockchain tech - i.e. Blockchain Chicken Farm, NFTs, etc a parallel development to address this sort of thing? The parallel seems to mirror Jennifer 8. Lee's book on the rise of General Tso's Chicken (open source) vs. McDonald's Chicken McNuggets (corporate), vs. the old ESR essay re "The Cathedral vs. the Bazaar" model of Microsoft vs. Linux development?
- caspar 6y agoAs I remember it, ads/malware trying to look like install (or download) links have been common for the last 10 years - to the point of training me to ignore any image that has the word "Download" in it. Choco helps work around much of that. It's more concerning to have official installers contain adware/malware though.