Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV...
by jeroenhd on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:21PM
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> where Apple can be more sure (hopefully) that the apps are safe
Ha, they'd love to capture the 30% Apple tax on macOS too, I'm sure.
I don't think the mark-of-the-web feature is bad, but I am particularly annoyed that I have to open the system settings app to open an application.
Honestly, when I first tried modern macOS, I was surprised how bad the popups and warnings were. This is exactly what Apple (rightfully) made fun of when Vista came around. I've caught myself mindlessly approving prompts because there are so many of them and most of them don't make much sense at all ("do you want to allow iTerm access to your downloads" after I've explicitly dragged the thing to the special "developer tools" setting? what the heck?).
Ha, they'd love to capture the 30% Apple tax on macOS too, I'm sure.
I don't think the mark-of-the-web feature is bad, but I am particularly annoyed that I have to open the system settings app to open an application.
Honestly, when I first tried modern macOS, I was surprised how bad the popups and warnings were. This is exactly what Apple (rightfully) made fun of when Vista came around. I've caught myself mindlessly approving prompts because there are so many of them and most of them don't make much sense at all ("do you want to allow iTerm access to your downloads" after I've explicitly dragged the thing to the special "developer tools" setting? what the heck?).