What I find personally funny is the amount of bashing Microsoft gets for being hostile to privacy, yet when Apple or some other company tries to make a push forward, they get bad comments because of a side effect of it Yes, this could probably be better, but practically no security improvement can be achieve without a tradeoff. As mentionned in the blog post, this user is a power user, with many programs installed and these popups appears only one time. Spending at most 10 minutes accepting/denying permission prompts (which, let's be honest, are pretty concise and clearly worded) is a good tradeoff for more control on what applications are doing on my system.