Posting this (didn't find a previous post of it), because between...

  - This
  - Android requiring developer verification (partially reverted)
  - Apple using TPM to lock you out of data on your own machine [1]
  - Apple's slowly tightening security regime on macOS [2]
  - I'll keep the list short but many more recent items from Apple and Google especially - less so Microsoft I think?

Want to script Chrome for your users? Out. Want to import from or read their ChatGPT chats? Out. Want to ship them an app that does something Apple/Google-unapproved? Or that talks to or inspects other apps? Out.

It feels like Big Tech security teams are locking down software for yesterday's world – whilst each of them keeps and uses their own access – at a time when the opportunity to tinker with our computers is at an all-time-high.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45663810

[2]: If you'd told me in the early 2000s that I'd have to send every binary that'll run on someone else's computer to Apple first for it to not scare-screen them... at least SmartScreen/Chrome's approach are statistical and hash-based rather than having to receive a full copy of every such binary.