Game launcher installs Root CA certificate on your machine (2024)

The entitlement of application authors to do whatever the fuck they want on your machine is astounding to me.

Root CAs, background processes 24/7, uploading of the full process list, clipboard spying, local network scanning, surveillance (aka telemetry) - when did developers decide that our machines aren’t ours anymore?

It would be nice if desktop software had to explicitly request access to different APIs on the system (network, filesystem, etc) as well as only request access to specific filesystem paths, then give us prompts that list the permissions that the app wants. Something like pledge (https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2) from OpenBSD/Serenity but integrated into the desktop systems GUI.