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Comment by ascorbic

8 hours ago

It's not a backdoor: it's using a feature for the purpose for which it was designed. It's not granting plugins access to anything except itself

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Razengan  6 hours ago

It's the sheer gall of doing shit like that on my system without asking me. Creating a shitload of files to modify the settings of OTHER apps, wtaf?

I asked Codex to look into it: https://i.imgur.com/lvOjR0x.png

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