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"no because the dev hasn't paid us to certify it as safe so you'll have to jump through 37 hoops in order to allow you to right click, hold options, and click open. THEN we'll give you an option to install it"
THIS! I can support apple cutting legacy cruft while designing their products. But the gatekeeping of otherwise functional code you can already observe and cockblock at any time remotely is psychotic.
Is this a LibreWolf on Mac reference, because I hate this so much about LibreWolf on Mac lol.
Not so much a librewolf reference as much as a "any app you download from the Internet" reference lol
I'll have to try installing librewolf when I'm feeling frisky though
I mean, macOS has a lot of issues but the one hoop needed to run any unsigned app is "right-click app icon, click open".
Sometimes it won't let you even get to that step without going into the settings and finding a secret security notification that it blocked it from opening
Yeah, and in rare instances, you’ll need to take the app/binary out from the quarantine
I guess that is true, yes. I do think it's generally a good thing that they're locking down specific permissions like that though.
Are you still taking about macs? Because that's Windows.
Is it? The only hoop I can remember jumping through is the (usually) singular UAC popup
Unless you're Ubisoft and pop up 5-8 of them every time you open Ubisoft connect
Windows will block any software that isn't popular. Unless the developer pays Microsoft.
I think I've seen this before, very rarely though. If I remember correctly you can continue to open it from the popup, right?
"Windows Smartscreen has blocked this app from running"
Yes, you can pull the "more options" thing and run it.
There's a button to ignore it, and paying Microsoft wouldn't help anyways, there's someone else you need to pay for signing keys
John Windows himself...
I've never seen that, and I've been using Windows professionally and personally for...ever.
It's only a thing if you leave smartscreen on. Think it might also only apply to stuff downloaded through Edge, but don't quote me on that.