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Welp, company did stupid thing, time to let the OS company have 100% control and profit over the entire computer. A bit of an outsized response, no? To be cle

Welp, company did stupid thing, time to let the OS company have 100% control and profit over the entire computer. A bit of an outsized response, no? To be clear, I disagree with Zoom's rationale (avoiding a single confirmation click when the zoom website launches zoom), and I agree with Apple automatically disabling that server for it's customers. That doesn't mean I think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.

scarface_74 3y ago
No, it isn’t. It’s been proven over three decades of computing that companies - even reputable ones - will do all sorts of crap to your computer. I’m very careful what I install on my computers. I will install any random crap on iOS devices that I would never install on my computer because they are sandboxed. Not purposefully, but there was a version of Chrome where the installer would leave your Mac inoperable if you had System Integrity Protection turned off. https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262/chrome-update-impacts-some-macos-systems?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262/chrome-upd... Both Google and Facebook encouraged iOS users to install developer certificates that were meant for internal employees so they could track them. Epic, the biggest whiner about App Store policies, caused a huge security vulnerability when Android users side loaded Fortnite https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-for-android-came-with-an-epic-security-risk/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/just-as-critics-feared-fort... Not to mention the old school rootkits that Sony installed back in the day https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandalHave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo... It should be hard and require users to jump through hoops to allow apps to break out of sandboxes

scarface_74 3y ago

No, it isn’t. It’s been proven over three decades of computing that companies - even reputable ones - will do all sorts of crap to your computer. I’m very careful what I install on my computers. I will install any random crap on iOS devices that I would never install on my computer because they are sandboxed. Not purposefully, but there was a version of Chrome where the installer would leave your Mac inoperable if you had System Integrity Protection turned off. https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262/chrome-update-impacts-some-macos-systems?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262/chrome-upd... Both Google and Facebook encouraged iOS users to install developer certificates that were meant for internal employees so they could track them. Epic, the biggest whiner about App Store policies, caused a huge security vulnerability when Android users side loaded Fortnite https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-for-android-came-with-an-epic-security-risk/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/just-as-critics-feared-fort... Not to mention the old school rootkits that Sony installed back in the day https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandalHave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo... It should be hard and require users to jump through hoops to allow apps to break out of sandboxes