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Re:Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoo... by pvg on Thursday July 11, 2019 @05:26PM (#20416013)
Lying to users about the uninstallation is pretty icky intent. It's weird to make this about the sanctity of user choice and just repeatedly ignore that bit on top of coming up with a throughly inaccurate narrative about the nature of Apple's response.
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Re:Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoo... by fauigerzigerk on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:21PM (#20416425)
I didn't ignore that bit. You didn't bring it up in your responses to me.

Instead you defended Apple fixing security issues in third party software (as I understood it without user consent) and you compared any concerns about that with concerns about buses intentionally running over pedestrians.

So apparently our debate took wrong turn and that wasn't entirely my fault although I will take some of the blame.

I agree that Zoom's intent (and even more so their methods) is icky. So perhaps we should have focused on that, because I can understand the reasoning that this makes Apple's actions look far more justified than I initially thought.

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