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Re:Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar by user3939382 on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:40AM (#47573529)
Gatekeeper is a travesty and assault on user freedom. Apple should not be in charge of what you run on your computer, at all. Any exception to this should be opt in. If a user wants to insert a third party between themselves and a programmer they can elect to do that.

Let’s not forget when Apple’s certificate server was down and suddenly you couldn’t launch apps on macOS, to say nothing of the abuse of user rights.

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Re:Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar by drfloyd51 on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:59AM (#47573722)
Users used their freedom to choose macOS. Gatekeeper is a desirable feature. They opted-in with their purchase.
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Re:Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar by foltik on Monday March 30, 2026 @09:02AM (#47573751)
Speak for yourself, I used my freedom to disable it.
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Re:Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar by hspmn on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:54AM (#47573671)
you're saying security should be optional and up to users?

lol

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Re:Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar by user3939382 on Monday March 30, 2026 @07:50PM (#47581102)
Suggest you read up on the Free Software Foundation if you’ve come to equate security with someone else controlling your machine without your consent.
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