top | item 46117394 (no title) datadrivenangel | 2 months ago This permission is so weirdly named and scary, and the applications never tell you why they're requesting it... on iOS it would be against the developer guidelines... discuss order hn newest cyberax|2 months ago Yep. MacOS is against the iOS guidelines.Because it's a macOS dialog, not something that is controlled by applications. cyberax|2 months ago BTW, what's even worse is that this permission is utterly useless. A malicious app can just use the system `curl` to bypass it.Meanwhile, the genuinely scary "Accessibility" permissions that allow spying over the entire system are granted once and never need to be re-approved.
cyberax|2 months ago Yep. MacOS is against the iOS guidelines.Because it's a macOS dialog, not something that is controlled by applications.
cyberax|2 months ago BTW, what's even worse is that this permission is utterly useless. A malicious app can just use the system `curl` to bypass it.Meanwhile, the genuinely scary "Accessibility" permissions that allow spying over the entire system are granted once and never need to be re-approved.
cyberax|2 months ago
Because it's a macOS dialog, not something that is controlled by applications.
cyberax|2 months ago
Meanwhile, the genuinely scary "Accessibility" permissions that allow spying over the entire system are granted once and never need to be re-approved.