Eye-opening findings. After reading the article I revoked every folder permission and tested: Insent still reads Documents even when the UI shows "None". This is a serious trust failure; transparency is supposed to be the whole point of those preference panes.

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nativeit 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Don’t applications running under your user account have access to your user’s home folder by default?

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josephcsible 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The entire point of macOS's TCC was supposed to be to make that not the case anymore.

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iAMkenough 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No. You get prompted something like “Application wants access to your Documents folder” and “Application wants access to your Downloads folder” on first attempt of each folder.

	▲	ted_dunning 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The article seems to be saying that is true unless you implicitly and somewhat invisibly grant access via the file picker.