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>>myster+(OP)
I'm extremely wary about any application pushing politics.

I subscribe to MacPaw, who makes excellent apps like Setapp, Gemini, and CleanMyMac, all of which I use.

At some point, CleanMyMac started putting the Ukranian flag on the app icon and flagging utilities by any Russian developer as untrustworthy (because they are russian), and recommended that I uninstall them.

I am not pro russia/anti-ukraine independence by any means, but CleanMyMac is one of those apps that require elevated system permissions. Seeing them engage in software maccarythism makes me very, very hesitant to provide them.

>>prodig+b3
I hate to say this, but wariness of software developed within Russia has been around for ages, long before the current war.

Since there are a lot of both Ukrainian and Russian software developers, this is personal for a lot of people in the industry.