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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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These guys forget that they are an incredibly stark minority of users. Most users cannot be trusted to have free reign over their own system. We all know this to be true. You've troubleshot your grandma's Jitterbug phone that somehow had Internet Explorer toolbars installed onto it, you know this to be true.
Maybe there is no reasonable case for a developer to have any say over what you - specifically you, the guy who knows what "*nix" means - do with your hardware. But there are plenty of reasonable cases for the other 99.99% of users.
Posts like this are like a mechanic saying "There is no reason for a manufacturer to force drivers into having a catalytic converter in their own engine". Like... okay, maybe your car is special because you're a literal expert, but the rest of the world need that thing because they can't be trusted to manage their emissions on their own.
That's fine. They should be LEGALLY required to allow ME to make that call and offer an avenue to allow me to remove it all.
Nobody is saying everyone's machine MUST be completely open and insecure.
But that's a far cry from giving me no recourse to make MY hardware do what I want it to.
And before anybody screams "liability", they're going to hold you to an EULA anyway - throw a couple lines in there.
You already can't "sideload" without navigating the options and going through a big scary pop-up saying you better know what you're doing. In other words, it's already locked down enough.
This is not about making grandma safe. It is about control.
Well not really because scammers post things like "install this NOW to protect your system !" and Uncle Eugene clicks it through.