Q CLI app surreptitiously installs IDE plugins even when denied permission to make changes to the system. #206
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I installed this to try it out, but aborted the first launch rather quickly when asked to approve opaque dotfile edits and grant system wide accessibility privileges, and immediately deleted it. However, it appears that the application went ahead and installed plugins into all my IDEs anyway, as evidenced by a later discovery that something was interfering with the proper functioning of IDE features.
I think that using the time a user spends denying you permission to make changes to their system to do it anyway by establishing a persistent agent that interferes with the proper functioning of other programs on the system is unbelievably egregious, arguably rising to a behavioural definition of malware.
If you're going to prompt for my consent to make changes to my system, please wait until it is granted to make changes to my system.
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