Perhaps some legislative action to forbid OSes from doing stuff in the background would be reasonable. This regime can’t be optimal: the system downloads uninspectable binary blobs, crafted by an entity with questionable incentives, and there’s no opt-out.
Security is an issue, but we can have auto-updates only for the security component, and leave the rest to the user.
Not to mention how annoying it is that whenever I start my Windows VM (like once per 1-2 months), the system starts downloading some huge files with no way to stop it, runs out of space, etc.
Perhaps some legislative action to forbid OSes from doing stuff in the background would be reasonable. This regime can’t be optimal: the system downloads uninspectable binary blobs, crafted by an entity with questionable incentives, and there’s no opt-out.
Security is an issue, but we can have auto-updates only for the security component, and leave the rest to the user.
Not to mention how annoying it is that whenever I start my Windows VM (like once per 1-2 months), the system starts downloading some huge files with no way to stop it, runs out of space, etc.