Desktop software has been a consistent and egregious offender when it comes to overstepping bounds for a long, long time… especially big corporate desktop softw

Desktop software has been a consistent and egregious offender when it comes to overstepping bounds for a long, long time… especially big corporate desktop software (hi Adobe). It’s honestly kind of shocking that all desktop OSes didn’t gain something like mobile permissions over a decade ago. macOS has some as do a few configurations of Linux, and yeah Windows is happy to hand over not only your farm but also a few acres from that of your neighbors’ farm to anybody who even suggests slight interest. I know there’s been much consternation over permissions, sandboxing, etc and how they complicate software development and power user workflows, but I don’t see a path forward where they aren’t necessary.