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Re:Keybase 4.0 by 781 on Saturday May 11, 2019 @01:26PM (#19887280)
Uninstalled because on Windows it registers itself to auto-start on boot no matter what you do. I keep removing it from the autostart places and it keeps registering back.

I get it that they want to get usage telemetry, but it's ridiculous for a security focused app to force itself like that.

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2380

https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/3904

https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/5990

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Re:Keybase 4.0 by randy408 on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:21PM (#19887540)
They don't seem to prioritize user choice on the linux version either, there's no snap/flatpak available nor a user friendly option to not mount the FUSE filesystem.

https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/8264

https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/9191

https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/7846

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Re:Keybase 4.0 by lifty on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:09PM (#19887478)
The annoying part is that the operating system allows this and doesn’t have a good way for users to restrict service startup.
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