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> malice and/or other serious bugs should be assumed Going back to the blog post and re-reading it with this possibility in mind is quite a trip. > It turns o
by Telemakhos 1y ago
> malice and/or other serious bugs should be assumed
Going back to the blog post and re-reading it with this possibility in mind is quite a trip.
> It turns out thousands of our users had the app running in the background, even though they were not using it or checking it for weeks (!). It meant thousands of users had auto-updater constantly running and downloading the new version file (250MB) over and over again every 5 minutes
This could easily have been data exfiltration from client computers instead, and few (besides the guy whose internet contract got cancelled for heavy traffic) would have noticed.
- n_ary 1y agoI find the misbehavior of indie/boutique MacOS apps always insisting on starting at login very irritating. Unless the app needs to run some heavy background preparation steps before becoming usable, there is literally no sense it starting at login. Also when dormant, check for update(once every 24h), and nag the user if they want to update, but please do not auto download! A lot of non-tech folks use 128/256GB versions of macbook with trillions of photos already clogging their device, an app downloading new updates to add to the pain unless the user asks to do so is outright malice.