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How do you identify apps that you shouldn't trust? Sometimes trust is assumed only until evidence is given that trust shouldn't be given. Which makes no sense to me. Why was the initial trust so easily given?

A solution is to not use third party apps but most people aren't going to go that route. The VM idea is a good option though.

>>phyzix+(OP)
> Why was the initial trust so easily given?

Because this architecture predates the existence of the current privacy nightmare.

In fact it predates the general availability of the internet. How could a program you would install from a floppy/compact disk bought on a store behave maliciously if you didn’t or barely had access to the internet ?

And then it stayed like this because Windows is heavily marketed as being retro compatible.

>>pjerem+w6
It's also from a time when corporate mass surveillance was universally hated, software was not a service, and "phoning home" or requiring an Internet connection considered unacceptable to the majority of users.