@USBTypeSteve @atpfm @siracusa Finally had a few minutes to dig into Spotify. Sure enough there is something called “Spotify.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/StartUpHelper.app”. But nothing is actually listed in my user Login Items as a result of this. Meanwhile Spotify also wants “Allow In Background”. (Related? 🤷) To turn off auto launch you have to do it in Spotify’s own settings, after it has virally opened the first time. MANY apps are like this. 🤬
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@marcoarment Amazing story on the bootleg. But I’m confused about private podcast support. Maybe I’m missing something obvious, but is this a grey area, or do you have an above-the-board right to intercept private URLs and use copies of the files on your servers?
@siracusa It’s currently free on Amazon Prime!
@caseyliss @siracusa Completely with you on that, and I only read it once. The movie definitely capped any remaining fondness I had. Yet the War Games thing has persisted in my thoughts as the one section that still hits. I think “interactively experience a scene from any movie in VR” could easily happen within the next ten years.
@atpfm @siracusa Did you ever read Ready Player One? One of the most fun / interesting parts was how it integrated War Games into The Oasis. This wasn’t in the (mostly awful) movie. It would have been half impossible to pull off for both technical and IP reasons, although I still kind of wish they tried.
@USBTypeSteve @atpfm @siracusa Second answer here nails it: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/86217/disabling-startup-items-that-run-on-their-own
Sandboxing is fine but the default permissiveness is a disastrous mistake. It shouldn’t be possible for a login item to run for a user until that user has manually opened the app once and permission has been granted to run the login item from now on (and it’s listed in system prefs). Given Apple’s typical draconian control over this type of stuff it’s shocking that it doesn’t work that way.
@chucker @siracusa Sure, but what I’m finding so obnoxious in modern macOS apps is that they seem to be able to provide auto launch capability that applies to all users, all without showing up in Startup Items for your account or even having an installer that sets up a global LaunchAgent/Daemon. (Maybe?) I logged into one of my kid’s laptops for the first time using my own account and ten things popped up, with difficult or impossible ability for controlling them in my account.
@siracusa Also, apps have been getting increasingly aggressive in recent years in wanting to auto start their guis or at least background processes. I’m also convinced that some apps sneakily use the background process permission to auto launch themselves, when I don’t think that’s what it ought to be used for.